Aid for Zimbabwe?

After independence, Mugabe, at the time the pet of the west, received an inordinate amount of aid; street smart as he is, he used some of it to build schools and hospitals, just to keep it flowing, and at the same time proceeded to exterminate the opposition in Matabeleland while we looked the other side. At that point it was clear that he would not - he could not - relinquish power ever, for fear of a trial or reprisals; typical career of a despot.

He continued to erode civil liberties and, unable to admit that his ill-digested marxist theories would never maintain, let alone improve, the beautiful and healthy country he had inherited, he embarked in the DRC war adventure and, many suspect, even tried his hand at regime change in Equatorial Guinea, desperate for oil. Having now completed his transformation into a perfect scavenger, to keep his grip on power at the cost of finishing off Zimbabwe he attacked white farmers, who - it should be noted - where the only ones at this point keeping the country's economy afloat (and most of whom had acquired their properties during his regime with his full consent). Not happy with the famine he has created, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of farm labourers displaced by his racist policy,he has now magnanimously declared that he might accept food aid at his conditions:

President Mugabe has also made it clear that the country welcomes assistance from other countries of goodwill but remains firmly opposed to any food handouts on political conditionalities.

My question is (and it is an honest question): should we accept his conditions in order to save some zimbabweans (surely the political opposition will not receive even a cob of maize) or should we press for change and risk the lives of millions? And, are we not risking the lives of millions anyway by supporting the regime?

In light of recent developments in Zimbabwe, it is clear that Mugabe has no intention to change or repent for his cruelty, mismanagement and general idiotic adventurism.