“Human rights are
no longer on the agenda of the European Union. They have sought to re-engage
with Mugabe and there are concerns that come February (when the EU leadership
meets) there won’t be any more measure against him,” commented Clifford Mashiri
to the report that a Germany company has been supply Grace Mugabe’s Gushungo
Dairy with spare. Grace is on the EU sanctions list.
Mr Mashiri said the EU has by and large "acquiesced
and accepted Mugabe, particularly for economic motives".
No one in the EU denies that Mugabe blatantly rigged the
2013 elections. They, however, want to accept the results on the excuse that
there is no evidence. I say excuse because that is exactly what it is, a feeble
excuse. We all know that nearly a million voters were denied the vote because
their names were not in the voters roll in the ward they expected it to be.
They constituted one third of the three million cast votes in the elections and
Mugabe's "winning" margin.
We all saw the bussed in voters who clearly did not live
in the area they had just been cast their votes. They could not even name one
street in the area, for Pete's sake.
Mugabe has stubbornly refused to release the voters roll,
now four months after the elections. Why?
The Police and those tasked to manage the elections
should have investigated why so many voters were denies the
vote, strangers were being bussed around to vote and Mugabe himself should
explain why the voters roll has not been release.
5 comments:
@ Pamwechete
Some one once said that if you want to hide something from blacks put it in a book! Man that hates not because it is a racist thing to say but more so because it is true! We do not like to read and thus have denied ourselves the opportunity to bath in the pool of knowledge and thus condemned ourselves to blundering from pillar to post.
We elected Mugabe and it took us 15 years at least before we finally realized he was a corrupt and ruthless tyrant. The economy started to falter after five years and by the mid 1980s Mugabe murderous campaign was already in full swing - the information was there but we failed to see it.
By the July 2013 elections it was clear that Tsvangirai was a breathtakingly incompetent- he had failed to get even one democratic reform implemented, for example, although he had five years to do so - and yet the nation believed his lies of the elections going to be free and fair. We followed him blindly like sheep to the slaughter and Mugabe did just that!
@ Chimbwido
The EU, USA, Canada and Australia have already said the July 2013 elections were nor free, fair and credible. They did not need to read what I, S W Radio Africa or anyone else said; they saw the evidence of the bussed voters, etc. for themselves!
Yes there are some countries like Belgium who want the sanctions against Mugabe lifted regardless of the vote rigging, continued serious human rights violations, the certainty that Zanu PF will not implement any reforms now and therefore the dictatorship will once again rig the next elections, etc., etc. They want a cut of Zimbabwe's diamond wealth regardless of the suffering and deaths Mugabe is bringing to millions of ordinary Zimbabweans.
Countries like Belgium only "care about what is in their best national interest," you are right there. Even when those national interests tramps the hopes and dreams of millions of Zimbabweans for peace, freedom and human dignity. Needless to say you and Mugabe are pleased with Belgium's position!
@ Makunike
You should be addressing yourself to Mugabe and the JOC members; nothing in Zimbabwe can ever be done - good or bad, positive or negative, with them. But I guess you know that the tyrant and his cronies have long since given up on doing anything good or positive and that is why you did not bother address them. Well they are too busy looting to pay attention, even if you tried to engage them.
Good luck with the rural councillors, etc., etc.; you are whistling in the grave yard, if you ask me! The only reason they risked all to be elected was so they can get to pick the bones falling off the Zanu PF chefs' table. It is naïve to expect them to do anything else!
I pleased that Africa Union swallowed its totally misplaced ego and its "African solution to an African problem" or African tyrants like Mugabe's usual anti-West rhetorical nonsense and accepted the French involvement in this war. Without UN and French help the AU would be twiddling its thumbs whilst CAR burnt.
If the world should uncover cases of serious human rights violations had already been committed in the CAR these last few weeks. Is the AU going to say no to those responsible being prosecuted by ICC in The Hague. The AU, (mis)led by Kenya and other well known African despots, has been vigorously in its demands for the ICC to stop pursuing African leaders accused of serious human rights violations! So what would it do now!?
Africa needs the West, ICC and the UN to play a major role in solving the continent's teething problems of corruption and political repression. The only Africans who do not want West involved (except to give aid and be allowed to bank the loot) are the murderous and corrupt African leaders!
I pleased that Africa Union swallowed its totally misplaced ego and its "African solution to an African problem" or African tyrants like Mugabe's usual anti-West rhetorical nonsense and accepted the French involvement in this war. Without UN and French help the AU would be twiddling its thumbs whilst CAR burnt.
If the world should uncover cases of serious human rights violations had already been committed in the CAR these last few weeks. Is the AU going to say no to those responsible being prosecuted by ICC in The Hague. The AU, (mis)led by Kenya and other well known African despots, has been vigorously in its demands for the ICC to stop pursuing African leaders accused of serious human rights violations! So what would it do now!?
Africa needs the West, ICC and the UN to play a major role in solving the continent's teething problems of corruption and political repression. The only Africans who do not want West involved (except to give aid and be allowed to bank the loot) are the murderous and corrupt African leaders!
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