Absolute power corrupts absolutely: the dictator Mugabe is devoid of any humanity!

@Fungayi, Dread Dread6 and Mariko

Mariko, congratulations you managed to get Fungayi and Dread Dread6 to address the issue of Zimbabwe’s sham 2008 June election. They gave wishy-washy answers; still it was a start. Let’s see if we can squeeze a drop of blood from these stones.

Fungayi, Mariko did NOT say Tsvangirai won 50% plus one after the March 2008. MDC shot themselves in the foot – not for the first time nor, alas, was it the last time – after the 28 March vote by announcing that Tsvangirai had won 61% of the vote only to revise that figure downward a few days later. Still, five weeks was an inordinately long time for ZEC have taken just to add up figures from 300 or so centres, particularly when three months later they took less than a day to do the same job. It certainly raised the spectra of ZEC “cooking up” the results.

Dread Dread6, yes there were delays in announcing US presidential election results a few years ago; but the public were informed of the reasons for the delay and the legal teams of the contesting parties were involved every step of the way in the resolution of the matter. The same did not happen in Zimbabwe; it was Mugabe and Zanu PF who dictated to ZEC and MDC were completely left out. One ZEC member reportedly refused to toe the line and he “disappeared” and his dead body was later discovered. Needless to say there was no Police investigation and no one has ever been arrested for his murder.

Fungayi, we are not talking about just any Election Observer teams, we are talking of the SADC team and other teams countries Mugabe considered “friendly” and known for giving clean bill of health to dodgy elections in the past in Zimbabwe and other countries. After Zimbabwe’s sham June 2008 elections not even one of these carefully screened teams would say the elections were free and fair. The violence was just too widespread, vicious and malicious for anyone to ignore. If you do not want to accept outsiders judging the elections, then you should listen to the Zimbabwean themselves.

There were heartbreaking accounts of the violence and murders from the Zimbabweans themselves. To this day hundreds of thousands of Zimbabwean men, women and children have the scars or lost limbs to bear witness to their hellish stories. There are over two hundred graves all over Zimbabwe of those murdered in cold blood, for you to see. What else do you want to see so you can finally admit the three months of terror, rape and murder from April to June 2008 did take place? And the violence was to deny the Zimbabwe electorate their democratic right to a free and meaningful vote?

Yes no one would dispute that when Polling Stations in the 2010 UK elections closed all the voters who were still in the queue to vote were certainly denied their right to vote. But to put the case of 2010 UK voters on par with that of the 2008 Zimbabwean voters shows the high regard you have for the British as contrast to total contempt you have for Zimbabweans.

I can understand why some one like Dread Dread6 would not be touched by the outrage of the June 2008 election sham and can show such total indifference to the human tragedy in Zimbabwe in general. Dread is not a Zimbabwean; the black to black bond in his case is clearly very weak and empathy one would have for a fellow human is even more tenuous. But you, Fungayi, you are a black Zimbabwean; these are your own kith and kin, your own flesh and blood, what have they ever done to you that you should be so contemptuous to the point of glorifying those who torment and murder Zimbabweans?

I know, I know; power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Still, I never realised that “absolutely powers corrupts absolutely” meant it dehumanises you.

The GNU has failed to end the misery of our people because it was founded on one big lie; that Mugabe could change; that a ruthless dictator could be turned into a caring democrat. Appealing to Mugabe, his cronies and their acolytes’ senses of common justice, fair play and respect for the sanctity of life itself is a waste of time because thirty years of absolute power have killed off all their human emotions. The only way to end the suffering and despair in Zimbabwe is by bringing about regime change. We must end Mugabe’s absolutism now before it destroys the little humanity the nation still has left!