Blaming the whites for Mugabe's murders is admitting Mugabe's inability to judge for himself!

“Rhodesians promoted racial and tribal strife that culminated in Gukurahundi that brought about the senseless killings in Matabeleland and the Midlands regions,” wrote Chimbwido warveteran (S W Radio Africa). Mugabe and his apologists never tire of trying to find a scapegoat for the regime’s wrong doing but this is one of the feeblest excuses from them.

Yes the whites owned and controlled all facets of the country’s economic wealth and denied us the blacks all meaningful say in the governance of the country. That is a historic fact and no one is disputing that. That is not what we are talking about here.

What is at issue here is whether or not the white should be blamed for what happened after independence. You are saying yes and I am saying no.

The white may have had all the economic and political power and abused it and made us suffer and die unnecessarily for all those years of colonial domination and rule. Still no amount of colonial abuse could have deprived us our faculty to think for ourselves, to know what is right and what is wrong.

Mugabe never tires of reminding the nation of his heroic contribution in the fight to end colonial oppression. He fought to end it precisely because he KNEW the system was wrong. And the whole nation holds him and all those who contributed in the struggle to end colonial oppression in high regard preciously because they risked their own lives and indeed many died doing what is right!

On the political front the liberation war was so that blacks too would have the right to vote. “One man, one vote!” remember. Everything Mugabe did as soon as he got into power was to undermine and deny Zimbabweans that basic right. He wanted a de facto one-party state, a dictatorship. The Gukurahundi murders and the on-going political violence are all part of this grand scheme to secure absolute power.

To say Mugabe does not know that it is wrong to deny people their right to a free vote and even their right to life itself because he was traumatised by the whites during colonial rule is the feeblest excuse one can offer in supporting tyranny. He knows what is right and wrong it is just that greed for power and economic wealth has got the better of him.

If Mugabe is mad then I am not interested in why he is mad at this point; our principle concern should be to get him out of State House and stop the looting and murders! I hope Mugabe will go from State House to The Hague; he can then plead that he is suffering from colonial oppression induced madness but even he knows that will not wash!

If colonial oppression robbed Mugabe his ability to see right from wrong, his ability to reason for himself then he could not have that faculty in the first place. Handcuffs, beatings, torture, jails, etc.; all these punishments torment and punish us physically. None of these punishments have yet to deprive the prisoner his or her ability to think.  Mankind is yet to build a prison to imprison the mind. If Mugabe can not see whathe is doing is wrong then he never had that faculty in the first place. He should not blame the white man for making him lose something he did not have in the first place!