"What we would want to get to people is our voice and command that there should be no violence, but that does not mean that everybody will listen to us,” said the Zanu PF dictator, Robert Mugabe. Well there goes a man who speaks with a forked tongue; saying one thing but meaning the exact opposite!
So Mugabe is commanding his supporters to stop using violence to achieve their political objective at the joint press conference of the GNU partners. And, of course being the cunning fox he is, he has an excuse for the all the brutal human rights violations including the murder of tens of thousands of innocent Zimbabwe over the three decades of his rule; not everybody was listening to his none violence overture! That begs the question: what have you ever done to those who would not listen?
Did you ever have anyone of those who raped over 400 documented rapes, over 500 political murders, etc in the three months period of May to June 2008 alone arrested? Of course not, how could that happen when the Police Officers themselves are the ones spearheading these crimes. The very few who have been arrested have had the cases quashed by a partisan judiciary. And on the very rare occasion when the courts have tried to restore some resemblance of sanity by passing a token sentence to some of the political thugs; it was none other than Mugabe himself who immediately stepped in to grant the presidential pardon! Why, oh why; did you do it?
Zimbabwe has a culture of brutal political violence because those involve in this heinous crime KNOW they are above the law as long as they can show it all helped Mugabe and Zanu PF stay in power.
Mr Mugabe, you strangle hold on political power is totally dependent on violence; it has always done. You will lose next year’s election if there was to be free and fair elections with no violence. You have put aside a whole war-chest of cash from the sell of Marange diamonds to put the party thugs who will be deployed to beat, rape and murder all those dare exercise their democratic right to have a meaningful say in the governance of Zimbabwe. Only last week at your party conference you were talking of Zanu PF, like a train, “crashing” those who stand in your way to another electoral victory.
What I find really amazing is the Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara were clearly “honoured” to be at the joint press conference and listened attentively to the fork-tongue viper speaking!
"Yes, there are incidences of violence and we have witnessed it and we are committed as leaders to ensure that the next election is certainly not characterised by a culture of violence," was Tsvangirai’s response. "That demon must be ostracised, it is a demon that no-one wants."
We can now look forward to an election free of intimidation, violence and murder; the great Morgan Tsvangirai has spoken. The demon has been “ostracised”! It is a blessing to be naïve and stupid; how else can anyone say such nonsense with a straight face!
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Mugabe is determined to have elections next year regardless what MDC, Tsvangirai nor anyone else out there think. Mugabe has a full war-chest to pay his thugs, war vets, green bombers and State Security Agents who spearhead Zanu PF election campaign. Violence is a given!
MDC supporters are in for it. For the last two years, the party has clearly failed to stop Mugabe resorting to the use of violence to achieve his political goals again and it has no credible plan to protect its supporters, particularly those in the rural areas.
When you are looking up the business end of a thug's gun; it is unwise to argue with him muchless show your contempt of what the thug stands for. It is wiser to agree with the thug and do everything he commands. Zimbabweans must burn their MDC party cards and join Zanu PF in droves. PF Zapu supporters did this at the height of the Gukurahundi and it saved many, many lives. Of course, when it came to voting, they know their vote is their own private affair!
It is time Zimbabweans started using their heads. Mugabe will not know what to do addressing hundreds of thousands all waving Zanu PF cards, shouting his name and lapping up everything he says. And yet in his cold heart know every one of the masses despise him and everything he stands for!
No one should be surprised about the “the wanton rounding up of (MDC) 'suspects' and impromptu kangaroo courts citing these (Wikileak) private transcripts as evidence” had not started? Well it was just a matter of time. You should really not be surprised; considering the ease with which Mugabe has again and again turned a mole-hill of evidence against his critics into a mountain.
Sanctions were imposed on Mugabe and his inner circle for failing to hold free elections and for committing serious human rights violations including cold blooded murder of tens of thousands of innocent and defenceless civilians. Of course all those responsible for all these crimes should be hunted down and punished. It is a joke that the only punishment dished out to these thugs is the minor inconveniences of restrictions placed on their foreign travel and a freeze on their ill-got gains stowed away in distant lands.
What Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends should have been demanding from the roof tops all along is that all those responsible for Zimbabwe’s culture of violence and repression are arrested and punished. Before the formation of GNU, Tsvangirai did not even have the courage to publicly support the West imposed sanctions. After the GNU, Tsvangirai was the cheerleader of those calling for the lifting of the sanctions; although there was nothing to show Mugabe had changed in any way. Now the Wikileak reports show Tsvangirai had been publicly calling for the sanctions to be lifted whilst timidly calling for them to remain.
Tsvangirai may have been indecisive and feeble but not so with Mugabe. The dictator is moving in decisively and ruthlessly – even a timid support of sanction is not just a crime it is TREASON!
"It was not clear whether this was because the party lacks support, or because it failed to get its message out," the report says. Well why am I not surprised!
In Zimbabwe Morgan Tsvangirai called for the final push and it was a complete flop because the call was so badly organised and lacked any conviction. Ouattara like Tsvangirai wants power but has clearly failed to articulate what it is he will do differently from Gbagbo!
If Gbagbo will not go quietly then he should know that he will be kicked out! All those saying no to ECOWAS using force are not doing Ivoirians and the whole of Africa any favours. Africa has yet to learn that freedom, peace, justice, rule of law and all those things necessary for a stable, just and prosperous society come at a price. Whenever someone like Gbagbo threatens freedom, peace, etc. then he must be stopped. Yes, if necessary, he must be stopped by force!
There are people like Gbagbo know; he can hold the whole nation to ransom, threaten violence and indeed even murder hundreds or even thousands of innocent people to force their hand. They know that there are millions who would give him all. They would even pray for Divine intervention in their path of appeasement.
People like Gbagbo, Mugabe, and all the multitude of other dictators and tyrants ruling in Africa would not be holding a gun to society if they knew society would fight back. The challenge before us is making these tyrants know we care about peace and the rule of law and that we WILL do whatever is necessary to achieve that goal!
“No international institution has the right to intervene by force to impose a president in a sovereign state," said Gbagbo spokesperson Ahoua Don Melo. The sovereignty of a nation is the collective right and will of its all its people great and small, the rulers and ruled alike and not just a powerful and privileged few. So it should be in the Côte d'Ivoire.
The people of Côte d'Ivoire expressed their sovereign will in a democratic vote. They voted Ouattara to be their next President and Head of State. Laurent Gbagbo and a select few are seeking to disregard the people’s wish for selfish gain. What the international community has done is come out strongly and decisively in support of the people, the ordinary people’s expressed democratic will. It is this gang of thugs who are imposing themselves on the people and nation not the international community.
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