So the country has suffered and thousands have lost their lives in politically motivated violence because we did not have a CODE OF CONDUCT!? This is what the great indaba - meeting of the three principals in the GNU and their respect parties' executive committees - came up with? This is simply unbelievable!
We have a culture of violence because those responsible for the violence are above the law. In the past the Police has turned a blind eye to Zanu PF inspired violence. Only their shadowy cousins in the CIO have played an active role in the violence. When Mugabe lost the March 2008 presidential race the Police and the Army planned and executed the orgy of violence and mayhem that secured Mugabe’s ‘win’ in the June 2008 presidential run-off.
Mugabe had the December 2009 Zanu PF Congress passed a resolution committing the Police, Army, CIO and all other State Security Organs endorse the outrageous conduct of these organs in the June 2008 election violence and in future on the dodgy grounds that Zanu PF was “the only party of the revolution”.
It was the Police in Victoria Falls who chased away the people attending the MDC-T’s rally and closed the gates into the stadium in Tsvangirai’s face. The Police cancelled MDC-N’s rally and told Professor Ncube to his face they did not recognise anything other political party other than Zanu PF!
We have a culture of violence in Zimbabwe because Mugabe has granted himself tyrannical powers which he has then used to undermine the work of the Police, the Courts, the Media and all the other democratic institutions so that he and his thugs are above the law and thus free to do whatever they deem necessary to maintain his struggle hold on power.
After three decades of intimidation, rape and brutal murders – hundreds of thousands have been beaten and tens of thousands murdered in cold blood - Zimbabwe should not be talking of having the “green bombers” or the Chipangamo gang members arrested. They are the small fish, the foot soldiers. We should not even be talking of having the rogue army generals of Police Officers fired; we can but still that will not be enough. What this country needs is to stop pussyfooting and at last take the bull by the horns - impeach Mugabe as a ruthless murderer and tyrant.
Since the March 2008 election Tsvangirai and MDC had the people’s mandate to end Zimbabwe’s culture of violence by having the thugs arrested and punished, by acting swiftly against those in the security sector found wanting in their conduct or failed to carryout their public duties and thus stop the rot spreading and, now, by failing to impeach Mugabe. There could well be the last very last chance for this nation to stop this madness of pointless and barbaric violence and instead of taking the decisive action the situation demands the great indaba is to produce a code of conduct!
When Tsvangirai signed the power sharing agreement that got Mugabe off the hook many people said the arrangement would achieve nothing and time has proved beyond doubt that they were right. When Tsvangirai took the oath of office as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe it was clear why he signed the GPA, this was the pinnacle of his dreams and nothing anyone else said was going to stop him being PM. Whatever Tsvangirai and his friends have said or done about Mugabe since they all became members of the GNU it was understood by both sides as political posturing. They would never say or do anything to upset Mugabe and therefore they would never, never ever impeach Mugabe. No, not even if the very lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent Zimbabweans were at stake, as is clearly the case now.
Whilst the Indaba work on the code of conduct Mugabe will be distributing the millions of weapons he imported from his friends in China. He now has clearance to sell the stockpile of Marange diamonds and use the money to fund his campaign of violence and murder. Tsvangirai endorse the lifting of the ban on the sale of Marange diamonds knowing Mugabe and his cronies were conducting a very lucrative but secretive diamond business.
To retain his vice grip on power Mugabe has turned the people tasked with keeping law and order into murderous thugs and poisoned society so that one is forced to abandon reason and all humanity in a violent strangle for survival. Tsvangirai and his MDC friends will be just as responsible for the suffering and lost lives this new wave of Mugabe madness brings as the tyrant himself because they can and should stop Mugabe now. Impeach Mugabe now before it is too late; writing a code of conduct is but a feeble copout!
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So the Indaba met and decided that Zimbabwe needs a "code of conduct" to end the political violence! What a sick joke!
Matters have gone beyond the arrest of some murderous thugs or firing of the rogue Police or Army Officers; parliament must impeach Mugabe himself. He has vowed there will be no regime change in Zimbabwe and now he has the thugs, the weapons, money; everything to start an orgy of mindless violence. There is nothing new or deferent that a new code can come up with here. What has been lacking all these years is the political will and courage to deal with the various challenges the nation has faced including curse of violence. It is high time Tsvangirai stood up and be counted and this talk of a code is nothing but a cynical copout!
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