“My people still need me
and when people still need you to lead them it's not time, sir, it doesn't
matter how old you are, to say goodbye,” Mugabe claims.
“They will say you are
deserting us and I am not a deserter, never have been, never have thought of
deserting people. We fight to the finish: that's it. I still have it in me here."
Here is a man who has
ruthlessly silenced all his critics and denied the people their basic and
fundamental right to have a meaning say in the governance of the country. He
has harassed. Beaten and raped millions of Zimbabweans and murdered over 30 000
to establish and retain the Zanu PF dictatorship. He has murdered over 30 000
to ensure the nation does not elect anyone else but him.
Mugabe has never held
free and fair elections in all his 33 years in power and therefore he has never
had the mandate to rule Zimbabwe from the people. He can twist the historic facts
to suit his propaganda agenda and claim people needed him to lead them. The
reality will still remain unchanged – he stopped at nothing including denying
the people the right to a meaningful vote and the right to life itself to remain
in power.
Mugabe should have
been charged for serious crimes against humanity and genocide in the
Gukurahundi massacre years ago. The fact that he has not been charged all those
years does not mean the crimes have been forgotten or that he has got away scot
free.
Mugabe has bamboozled
PM Tsvangirai and MDC to ensure there was no democratic change as promised by
the GPA. He is wrong to think that there will therefore be no democratic change
in Zimbabwe. Tsvangirai was clearly not to the task; they are other more competent
and focussed leaders who will see the task through.
There will be
democratic change in Zimbabwe and with it regime change and those responsible
for serious human rights violations will face justice. Mugabe can then explain
why it was necessary to murder 30 000 to stay in power if the nation wanted him
to lead them.
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The AU was tasked to promote “stability, security, good governance, and economic co-hesion and cooperation.”
For a country like Zimbabwe that have seen the national economy shrink by a staggering 84% in the six year period 2002 to 2008 alone, unemployment soared to 90% and has stayed up there to this day and over 30 000 innocent Zimbabweans have been murdered in political repression. The AU has certainly failed the people of Zimbabwe.
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