"Our votes must go together with our guns," said Mugabe back in 1976. And ever since then he has backed ominous words with chilling acts of violence, rape and murder.
The right to meaningful say in the governance of the country lies at the very heart of what it means to be a citizen as contrast to being a subject or worse, slave. Besides granting all the nicety of being a citizen a truly democratic system allows society to reinvent itself and thus avoid the stagnation that of a monolithic de facto one-party dictatorship.
Thirty years of Mugabe one-party rule has result in economic melt down, the economy shrunk a staggering 84% in 2002 to 2008 alone. The nation is ruled by fear and not reason after years of intimidation, rape and murder of all Zanu PF critics and opponents.
MDC’s number one task was to end the dictatorship and bring meaningful democratic change. The only sure way to carry out the task was to challenge, head-on, this nonsense that the votes must follow the guns. In the 2008 elections the people of Zimbabwe gave MDC the power and mandate to do just that. Instead of challenging Mugabe the party saw it fit to appease the dictator by allowing back into State House with all his dictatorial powers.
There is nothing more obnoxious than someone entrusted with all the power and authority to do what is right and yet, out of cowardice or selfish gain, fail to do so. Tyrants count and thrive on this weaken!
It is right that tyrants should be tried and punished for their crimes against humanity. Still, I wish, cowards and sell-out should be tried along side them for aiding and abetting the tyrants!
MDC has failed to taken Mugabe to task for his guff using the gun to over ride the people’s vote. This has encourage the tyrant to back his threat with brute force and now rogue generals and village idiots like Raymond Chamba to parrot his guff publically.
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