The
fear of being dragged to The Hague to face charges of serious human right
violations is the one reason that has forced President Mugabe to hang on to
power at all cost. If he is still alive next year, be criss-crossing the
country in his wheelchair just to prove he is still alive and hang on to the
presidency.
”Do not judge, or you will be judged. For with the same judgment you
pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you
use, it will be measured to you,” said Lord Jesus.
What must be made clear
here is that it was Robert Mugabe himself and his tyrannical regime who have not
only measured and judged others but have executed the punishments. The regime has
murdered over 30 000 Zimbabweans in the last 37 years to establish and retain
its de facto one-party cum one-man (Robert Mugabe) dictatorship.
What the ICC in The Hague
or the Zimbabwean people themselves are demanding from Mugabe is what crime did
his victim commit and what legal measure he used to ascertain their guilt so
that the same can now be used judge him!
He refusal to face justice,
by rigging elections and clinging to the office of State President and the
immunity it provides, is an abomination; Mugabe was accuser, judge, jury and
execution in all these politically motivated murders. He is the accused now and
must not be allowed get away with yet another miscarriage of justice by summarily
dismissing the cases by hook and by crook. We must act decisively to end this
abuse of power. It was our failure to act decisively on the pre-independence
human rights violations that set the dangerous precedence that has encouraged
Mugabe and his thugs to put themselves too above the law.
As a nation, we did not do
ourselves any favours by sweeping the many serious crimes committed by both
sides in the liberation war, the white colonial regime and those fighting to
end its rule. If we had had the foresight to do so this nation could have been
spared the horrors of Gukurahundi, Operation Murambatsvina, the wanton violence
of the 2008 elections, etc.
The Zanu PF dictatorship is
drawing to an end and we have a chance to change the course this nation will
follow for a generation. We owe it to ourselves and posterity not to repeat the
historic blunder of 1980 and sweep the Gukurahundi massacres, etc. under the
carpet.
Some people will argue that
by threatening Mugabe and his cronies with arrest for their role in the
Gukurahundi massacre, etc. we are forcing the regime harden its resolve to
remain in power at all cost. This is a very sound argument however these people
must also accept reality that, throughout human history, all those who have
given in to appeasement and blackmail, there is no denying Mugabe is holding
the whole nation to ransom here, have never ever tasted freedom for long, if at
all!
What is there to stop this corrupt and
murderous Zanu PF regime committing yet another wave of mindless bloodshed for
no other reason than to cow down the people by reminding them the wanton
barbarism the regime is capable of. And to replenish the regime’s ranks with
fresh thugs whose commitment to the Zanu PF no-regime-change mantra will be as
unshakable as the current leaders because they too will fear being dragged to
The Hague to explain the innocent blood on their hands!
Mugabe and Zanu PF’s have
tasted absolute power for over 37 years now getting them to give it up was
never going to be easy. The prospect of being asked to account for all their
amassed wealth and, worse still, the human blood on many of their hands is
making them fight even harder to remain in power.
On the other hand, Zanu PF’s
corrupt and tyrannical rule has been such a total disaster for the nation; unemployment
to soar to 90%, millions now live in total abject poverty, health and education
services have all but collapse, etc. Regime change is now more than a economic
and political necessity, it is now a matter of life and death.
only unwavering determination to resist the
implementation of democratic reforms and face the acid test of free, fair and
credible elections is the fear of being dragged before the court of law to
account for their many crimes in power.
The people of Zimbabwe must
now demand their freedoms and basic humans including the right to free and fair
elections – the pre-requisite to any meaningful economic recovery and thus our
right to economic prosperity and happiness – as if hundreds of thousands of
human lives, in the next year alone, depend on it. The truth is, they do!
It is the ordinary people
of Zimbabwe who have paid dearly for Mugabe’s decades of corrupt and murderous
misrule. For him to hold the nation to ransom and continue his misrule for
another day longer just because he cannot face justice for past crimes is, in
itself, totally intolerable. Why should the people, the victims of his past
misrule, be the ones to suffer again just to shield him and his thugs!
Zanu PF rigged the 2013
elections because no reforms were in place. We must reject the holding of yet
another flawed election! The next elections must be free, fair and credible, on
that the people must stand firm and never compromise!
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The real annoying thing is that there is not even one opposition member who denies that Zanu PF has been rigging elections and, with no reforms in place, it will rig next year's elections too. The only reason why all of them are throwing their hats in to contest the flawed elections is to win the few gravy train seats Zanu PF offers the opposition as bait, as Senator Coltart has readily admitted in the 2013 elections.
“The worst aspect for me about the failure to agree a coalition was that both MDCs couldn’t now do the obvious – withdraw from the elections,” explained Senator Coltart.
“The electoral process was so flawed, so illegal, that the only logical step was to withdraw, which would compel SADC to hold Zanu PF to account. But such was the distrust between the MDC-T and MDC-N that neither could withdraw for fear that the other would remain in the elections, winning seats and giving the process credibility.”
We must do everything possible to stop these opposition politicians selling out once again! And everything must be done to make sure the people themselves know exactly what these sell-out opposition politicians are up to no good!
Army General, Constantine Chiwenga has once again repeated the threat that he will not salute a “President with no liberation war credentials”.
Of course, this casts another long shadow over the credibility of next year’s elections, as the elections heat up, this kind of threat will probably be repeated again and again. It is most unfortunate that we failed to deal with this matter decisively during the GNU by implementing the reforms. We are where we are; the only way forward is for us to go back and implement the reforms BEFORE the elections and finally settle this matter decisively once and for all.
“Speaking in parliament this week, Mnangagwa says his report for the past year shows that the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC)’s employees are corrupt. He said the organization’s bosses splurged US$ 5,5 million on luxury homes, top-of-the-range car and executive furniture at a time when the commission was being accused of doing little to fight corruption. A fortnight ago, four top managers were suspended for alleged misappropriation of funds.”
Who will guard the guards, if they should be corrupt!
So in the last year Zimbabwe has received over $10 million in food aid from the EU alone! What a shame for a country that used to be the breadbasket of the region!
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