Mugabe has no intention of ever giving up power inZimbabweand ever since he was first elected in 1980 he has used brute force against his political opponents and the people to retain his iron grip on power. His demands to have targeted sanction against him and his cronies lifted as a prerequisite for democratic reforms is no different from Saddam Hussein’s 1990 demand after invadingKuwait!
When the late tyrant ofBaghdad, Saddam Hussein – may his soul root in hell – invadedKuwaitin 1990; he tried to link his barbaric act to the Palestinian issue. He told the world at large he would leaveKuwaitif theIsraelleft all Palestinian occupied land. The government and people ofKuwait, like many other people the world over sympathised with the Palestinian people.Kuwaithosted hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees. That did not reduce the Kuwaitis’ outrage at Saddam Hussein’s preposterous proposition.
Why should the people ofKuwaitbe denied their land, freedom and human dignity because of somethingIsraelhas done?
The international community and the UN itself too rejected the linkage and Saddam Hussein was unceremoniously booted out ofKuwait. The gullible Palestinians inKuwaithad voiced their support of Saddam Hussein’s scheme were themselves in turn booted out ofKuwait.
Saddam Hussein wantedKuwait’s oil revenue and he only brought up the Palestinian as a smoke screen to hide his real intentions.
Zimbabweans, like our brothers and sisters inKuwait, can see through Mugabe’s political machination. And we feel insulted that anyone much less a UN Human Rights Commissioner no less should be encouraging this tyrant to ride rough shod over our hopes and dreams of freedom and dignity.
Mugabe has had some SADC Head of State foolishly campaigning for the lifting of the sanctions.Zimbabwe’s own Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, and his follow MDC leaders have too joined the band wagon. The West has even responded by taking some of the names of the sanctions list. Mugabe has responded to all this by demanding an even great political bias from the nation’s security services, he has rich war-chest from commandeered diamond revenue to pay for an even bigger militia operation than that seen in 2008, etc. He has thumbed his nose at SADC by refusing to implement any of the GPA reforms agreed four years ago. As for Tsvangirai, one of the most incompetent leaders in human history, Mugabe has had nothing but contempt for the man.
Allowing Mugabe back into power through the back door after the sham June 2008 presidential run-off has been Tsvangirai greatest blunder. And for a thank you, Mugabe has kicked Tsvangirai in the kisser at very opportunity! And the people of Zimbabwe now face the real prospect of yet another bloody election in which their electoral wish will be disregarded thanks to Tsvangirai’s blundering incompetency.
Appeasing a tyrant like Mugabe does not work and it has never worked. It is deeply regrettable that Ms Navi Pillay has decided to join the band wagon of those appeasing Mugabe. The people ofZimbabwereject and condemn her decision because our right to free elections is not some Indian Sari Ms Pillay, Mugabe or anyone can trade or deny as they please!
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