US an Britain Fueling Violence in Zimbabwe
U.S. and Britain are Fueling Violence in Zimbabwe
Posted on Thursday, March 15 @ 20:59:20 VET
Posted: March 15, 2007
Updated: March 16, 2007
The latest negative media blitz on Zimbabwe manipulates what appear to be injuries sustained by Morgan Tsvangirai following a clash he had with the police after taking part in an MDC organized protest.
Apparently, once any group is aligned with the White settlers they can do no wrong in the eyes of the U.S. and Europe.
These opposition forces can break any law and be protected by these Western controlled media.
What they want is for President Mugabe and the Government of Zimbabwe to allow these opposition groups, which are being funded and promoted by the U.S. and Britain, to overthrow the democratically elected government of Zimbabwe.
Morgan Tsvangirai, in alliance with Britain and the White settlers, regularly calls on the international community to impose comprehensive sanctions against the Zimbabwe government and President Robert Mugabe.
Tsvangirai is the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) - one of the opposition parties in Zimbabwe that lost in Zimbabwe's 2005 Parliamentary Elections.
"In the 2000 parliamentary elections MDC won 57 seats compared to Zanu PF's 62. In the recent 2005 elections the MDC has dropped to 41 and Zanu PF increased to 78." (Zimbabwe 2005 Parliamentary Elections).
Barrie Collins in the article 'This time, Bob, it's personal' (2002) stated:
Zimbabwe's leading opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), is an opportunistic alliance of white farmers, trade unionists and urban commercial interests. Its track record reveals that it is more concerned with having good relations with the international community than with presenting the Zimbabwean electorate with a convincing alternative.
Since Morgan Tsvangirai lost in the 2005 elections there have been calls for him to step down (Call for Tsvangirai to resign after poll). Morgan Tsvangirai has not stepped down and it appears that he is bent on showing the U.S., European nations and White settlers that he can lead an uprising to overthrow the democratically elected government in Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe elections free and fair, says Tonchi).
To understand the current increase in U.S. and European hostilities surrounding Zimbabwe, one must look at the U.S. instigated Ethiopian invasion of Somalia - an invasion that did not bring a resounding condemnation from the global African community.
This lack of widespread African condemnation has emboldened the U.S. and Britain - the enemies of African liberation - in their aggression towards President Robert Mugabe and the government of Zimbabwe.
Many Africans held on to their anti-Islamic biases and did not see the bigger issue of an illegal U.S./Ethiopia invasion of Somalia.
The U.S. may now feel it has the green light to invade other African nations in a similar manner. The Islamic governing body was removed from Somalia without much condemnation because the U.S. was able to capitalize on the anti-Islamic feelings of many. (See: Somalia's Crisis)
Now that Africans have remained relatively quiet about the illegal Somalia invasion, the U.S. and Europe have intensified efforts to force the overthrow of the government in Zimbabwe. They may now be shopping for African nations to do the dirty work in toppling the Zimbabwe government, similar to Ethiopia's willingness to invade Somalia at the behest of the U.S.
In the article 'Zimbabwe: State Warns MDC Against Lawlessness' copied from the Zimbabwe government's website, and another article from the BBC's website 'Eyewitness: Harare's brutal clash' that purports to be an eyewitness account of what happened, one gets that the opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, among others, were deliberately defying the law and provoking a violent confrontation with the police and the government. As the so-called eyewitness said:
"All in all there were only about 30 police and there were more than 1,000 - we were too many for them. They could not control what was happening."
and,
"We picked up their [police] discarded sticks and used them to beat their left-behind colleagues"
From that BBC article 'Eyewitness: Harare's brutal clash', there is no way we can deduce that the police and the government were to blame for the clash between over a thousand protesters, mostly youths, and thirty police officers. The small number of police officers who were eventually overpowered by the protesters clearly showed that the police did not come out in huge numbers prepared for a violent confrontation.
From the article 'Zimbabwe: State Warns MDC Against Lawlessness' this is another account:
"Cde Mohadi said last weekend's planned gathering was not a prayer meeting, as the opposition had claimed under the so-called Save Zimbabwe Campaign coordinated by the MDC's purported Democratic Resistance Committees (DRC) and other anti-Government civic organisations.
'It was not a prayer meeting because there are flyers which said it was an MDC defiance campaign and they were coercing people to attend the rally,' said Cde Mohadi.
"As police, we could not just stand by and see the country go on fire. So we deployed and managed to quell the disturbances. The leaders of the opposition (Morgan) Tsvangirai and (Arthur) Mutambara were actually commanding (hooligans) using children as shields.
"The flyers read: 'Save Zimbabwe Rally. MDC Defiance Campaign. MDC joins other democratic forces under the auspices of the Save Zimbabwe Campaign for the rally to be held on 11 March 2007 at Zimbabwe Grounds in Highfield, starting at 10am. 'It is defiance or death'.'
"Spokesperson of the Save Zimbabwe Campaign, Jacob Mafume, told reporters at a press conference yesterday that they would continue to defy the law.
'We are not going to stop,' he said."
Complicit in provoking this confrontation, the mainstream, White-owned media does not give the circumstances surrounding the confrontation. Instead they are continuing their demonizing campaign against the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe that intensified when he started reclaiming lands from the White minority elite settlers and returned the land to Africans. (See: Zimbabwe Under Siege and Holding On to Ill-Gotten Gains)
Rosemary Ekosso, in the article 'Zimbabwe: White Lies, Black Victims' gives a fair analysis of the U.S. and Europe's interest in Zimbabwe.
She wrote:
"Despite their pious claims, Britain and the others are not angry because Mugabe is a corrupt dictator. They sponsor corrupt dictators when it suits them. They are not angry because ordinary Zimbabweans are suffering under Mugabe. They don't care about ordinary Zimbabweans. They were quite happy to herd them into reserves when it suited them.
No, what they care about is the expropriation of white farmers. They express indignation at Mugabe's cronies acquiring the land. That is a bad thing, of course. I myself come from an area where government or government-affiliated bigwigs are buying up all the prime sea-front locations because they can afford them. But in the case of Zimbabwe only 0.3% of people settled on land have acquired it through undue influence or corruption. So 99.7% of Zimbabweans got their land fair and square."
The U.S., UK and their allies have done all in their power to ensure Zimbabwe's economy is ruined to create hardship on the people in the hope of forcing a rebellion to overthrow the elected government in Zimbabwe.
Their aim is to ensure that Zimbabwe collapses under President Robert Mugabe and that this collapse serves as a deterrent to other African leaders and nations from reclaiming lands that were seized from Africans during colonial rule.
Stephen Gowans puts it quite nicely in his article titled 'Whose Rights?' (February 25, 2007).
He said:
"ZANU-PF was a leading force in the armed struggle of the Black majority to wrest political control from the White minority Rhodesian settler regime. While the Black majority achieved a kind of formal political independence, de facto independence has always been limited by the reality that the White minority remains economically dominant. The land seizures were a way of carrying forward the revolution to its logical conclusion in the absence of Harare having the wherewithal to buy out the White settlers and absentee British landowners. While the confiscation of land was, on the one hand, a denial of the previous owners' rights to make a profit, it was, on the other, a reclamation of a right to land that had been stolen by colonial plunder -- a war of right against right (with the soft Left in the West, sadly, though predictably, aligning itself in the war with the landowners.) Zimbabwe is not, however, a one-party state, and nor is it a country in which those with money power are prohibited from buying mass media or funding opposition political parties to oppose the government. For this, Zimbabwe too, along with Venezuela, can be criticized for failing to be repressive enough, and yet it is revolutionary and national liberation movements that fail to repress their enemies with sufficient zeal and that allow ample opportunity for their enemies to marshal a counter-strike, that are often the most vigorously reviled by the soft Left (and perhaps because part of the counterstrike is PR campaigns mounted in the West to discredit the regime in question - campaigns the soft Left has always shown a particular vulnerability to.) Whatever repressive measures ZANU-PF takes toward its opposition must be understood in the context of the history of the struggle for national liberation and of the alliance of the main opposition party, the MDC, with Britain and the White settlers."
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Posted on Thursday, March 15 @ 20:59:20 VET
Posted: March 15, 2007
Updated: March 16, 2007
The latest negative media blitz on Zimbabwe manipulates what appear to be injuries sustained by Morgan Tsvangirai following a clash he had with the police after taking part in an MDC organized protest.
Apparently, once any group is aligned with the White settlers they can do no wrong in the eyes of the U.S. and Europe.
These opposition forces can break any law and be protected by these Western controlled media.
What they want is for President Mugabe and the Government of Zimbabwe to allow these opposition groups, which are being funded and promoted by the U.S. and Britain, to overthrow the democratically elected government of Zimbabwe.
Morgan Tsvangirai, in alliance with Britain and the White settlers, regularly calls on the international community to impose comprehensive sanctions against the Zimbabwe government and President Robert Mugabe.
Tsvangirai is the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) - one of the opposition parties in Zimbabwe that lost in Zimbabwe's 2005 Parliamentary Elections.
"In the 2000 parliamentary elections MDC won 57 seats compared to Zanu PF's 62. In the recent 2005 elections the MDC has dropped to 41 and Zanu PF increased to 78." (Zimbabwe 2005 Parliamentary Elections).
Barrie Collins in the article 'This time, Bob, it's personal' (2002) stated:
Zimbabwe's leading opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), is an opportunistic alliance of white farmers, trade unionists and urban commercial interests. Its track record reveals that it is more concerned with having good relations with the international community than with presenting the Zimbabwean electorate with a convincing alternative.
Since Morgan Tsvangirai lost in the 2005 elections there have been calls for him to step down (Call for Tsvangirai to resign after poll). Morgan Tsvangirai has not stepped down and it appears that he is bent on showing the U.S., European nations and White settlers that he can lead an uprising to overthrow the democratically elected government in Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe elections free and fair, says Tonchi).
To understand the current increase in U.S. and European hostilities surrounding Zimbabwe, one must look at the U.S. instigated Ethiopian invasion of Somalia - an invasion that did not bring a resounding condemnation from the global African community.
This lack of widespread African condemnation has emboldened the U.S. and Britain - the enemies of African liberation - in their aggression towards President Robert Mugabe and the government of Zimbabwe.
Many Africans held on to their anti-Islamic biases and did not see the bigger issue of an illegal U.S./Ethiopia invasion of Somalia.
The U.S. may now feel it has the green light to invade other African nations in a similar manner. The Islamic governing body was removed from Somalia without much condemnation because the U.S. was able to capitalize on the anti-Islamic feelings of many. (See: Somalia's Crisis)
Now that Africans have remained relatively quiet about the illegal Somalia invasion, the U.S. and Europe have intensified efforts to force the overthrow of the government in Zimbabwe. They may now be shopping for African nations to do the dirty work in toppling the Zimbabwe government, similar to Ethiopia's willingness to invade Somalia at the behest of the U.S.
In the article 'Zimbabwe: State Warns MDC Against Lawlessness' copied from the Zimbabwe government's website, and another article from the BBC's website 'Eyewitness: Harare's brutal clash' that purports to be an eyewitness account of what happened, one gets that the opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, among others, were deliberately defying the law and provoking a violent confrontation with the police and the government. As the so-called eyewitness said:
"All in all there were only about 30 police and there were more than 1,000 - we were too many for them. They could not control what was happening."
and,
"We picked up their [police] discarded sticks and used them to beat their left-behind colleagues"
From that BBC article 'Eyewitness: Harare's brutal clash', there is no way we can deduce that the police and the government were to blame for the clash between over a thousand protesters, mostly youths, and thirty police officers. The small number of police officers who were eventually overpowered by the protesters clearly showed that the police did not come out in huge numbers prepared for a violent confrontation.
From the article 'Zimbabwe: State Warns MDC Against Lawlessness' this is another account:
"Cde Mohadi said last weekend's planned gathering was not a prayer meeting, as the opposition had claimed under the so-called Save Zimbabwe Campaign coordinated by the MDC's purported Democratic Resistance Committees (DRC) and other anti-Government civic organisations.
'It was not a prayer meeting because there are flyers which said it was an MDC defiance campaign and they were coercing people to attend the rally,' said Cde Mohadi.
"As police, we could not just stand by and see the country go on fire. So we deployed and managed to quell the disturbances. The leaders of the opposition (Morgan) Tsvangirai and (Arthur) Mutambara were actually commanding (hooligans) using children as shields.
"The flyers read: 'Save Zimbabwe Rally. MDC Defiance Campaign. MDC joins other democratic forces under the auspices of the Save Zimbabwe Campaign for the rally to be held on 11 March 2007 at Zimbabwe Grounds in Highfield, starting at 10am. 'It is defiance or death'.'
"Spokesperson of the Save Zimbabwe Campaign, Jacob Mafume, told reporters at a press conference yesterday that they would continue to defy the law.
'We are not going to stop,' he said."
Complicit in provoking this confrontation, the mainstream, White-owned media does not give the circumstances surrounding the confrontation. Instead they are continuing their demonizing campaign against the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe that intensified when he started reclaiming lands from the White minority elite settlers and returned the land to Africans. (See: Zimbabwe Under Siege and Holding On to Ill-Gotten Gains)
Rosemary Ekosso, in the article 'Zimbabwe: White Lies, Black Victims' gives a fair analysis of the U.S. and Europe's interest in Zimbabwe.
She wrote:
"Despite their pious claims, Britain and the others are not angry because Mugabe is a corrupt dictator. They sponsor corrupt dictators when it suits them. They are not angry because ordinary Zimbabweans are suffering under Mugabe. They don't care about ordinary Zimbabweans. They were quite happy to herd them into reserves when it suited them.
No, what they care about is the expropriation of white farmers. They express indignation at Mugabe's cronies acquiring the land. That is a bad thing, of course. I myself come from an area where government or government-affiliated bigwigs are buying up all the prime sea-front locations because they can afford them. But in the case of Zimbabwe only 0.3% of people settled on land have acquired it through undue influence or corruption. So 99.7% of Zimbabweans got their land fair and square."
The U.S., UK and their allies have done all in their power to ensure Zimbabwe's economy is ruined to create hardship on the people in the hope of forcing a rebellion to overthrow the elected government in Zimbabwe.
Their aim is to ensure that Zimbabwe collapses under President Robert Mugabe and that this collapse serves as a deterrent to other African leaders and nations from reclaiming lands that were seized from Africans during colonial rule.
Stephen Gowans puts it quite nicely in his article titled 'Whose Rights?' (February 25, 2007).
He said:
"ZANU-PF was a leading force in the armed struggle of the Black majority to wrest political control from the White minority Rhodesian settler regime. While the Black majority achieved a kind of formal political independence, de facto independence has always been limited by the reality that the White minority remains economically dominant. The land seizures were a way of carrying forward the revolution to its logical conclusion in the absence of Harare having the wherewithal to buy out the White settlers and absentee British landowners. While the confiscation of land was, on the one hand, a denial of the previous owners' rights to make a profit, it was, on the other, a reclamation of a right to land that had been stolen by colonial plunder -- a war of right against right (with the soft Left in the West, sadly, though predictably, aligning itself in the war with the landowners.) Zimbabwe is not, however, a one-party state, and nor is it a country in which those with money power are prohibited from buying mass media or funding opposition political parties to oppose the government. For this, Zimbabwe too, along with Venezuela, can be criticized for failing to be repressive enough, and yet it is revolutionary and national liberation movements that fail to repress their enemies with sufficient zeal and that allow ample opportunity for their enemies to marshal a counter-strike, that are often the most vigorously reviled by the soft Left (and perhaps because part of the counterstrike is PR campaigns mounted in the West to discredit the regime in question - campaigns the soft Left has always shown a particular vulnerability to.) Whatever repressive measures ZANU-PF takes toward its opposition must be understood in the context of the history of the struggle for national liberation and of the alliance of the main opposition party, the MDC, with Britain and the White settlers."
Visit: Zimbabwe Watch
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And this article from _fifteen_ months ago was posted here in its entirety without commentary because...?
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HARARE, Zimbabwe - Saying the world can "shout as loud as they like," President Robert Mugabe refused to give into pressure from Africa and the West and vowed to go ahead with this week's runoff election, even though his opponent quit the race.
South Africa's ruling party issued a toughly worded statement Tuesday calling on Mugabe's government to stop "riding roughshod" over the opposition headed by Morgan Tsvangirai, who quit the presidential contest and sought shelter in the Dutch Embassy.
The African National Congress also warned against international intervention following a report in the Times of London that Britain has drawn up contingency plans for deploying troops in Zimbabwe to resolve a humanitarian crisis and to evacuate British nationals and their dependents.
"A lasting solution has to be led by the Zimbabweans and any attempts by outside players to impose regime change will merely deepen the crisis," the ANC said.
It singled out Britain, the colonial power when Zimbabwe was still Rhodesia, saying it had not followed through on pledges to help fund efforts to put more land in the hands of black Zimbabweans. Britain has cited concerns about corruption.
Campaigning Tuesday, Mugabe was defiant a day after the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to issue a strongly worded statement condemning violence against the opposition and saying it made a fair poll impossible. The statement won support from South Africa, China and Russia, which have previously blocked such moves.
Mugabe, a vigorous 84, kicked a soccer ball before thousands of cheering supporters and declared he would not back down.
"We will proceed with our election, the verdict is our verdict. Other people can say what they want, but the elections are ours. We are a sovereign state, and that is it," Mugabe said.
"Those who will want to recognize us on the basis of objectivity will do so. Those who don't, keep your judgment to yourselves. Our people are going to vote, and that vote will decide whether we have won or lost."
"They can shout as loud as they like from Washington or from London, or from any other quarter. Our people, only our people, will decide, and no one else," the Zimbabwean leader said.
Mugabe's plan to go ahead with Friday's vote appeared to stem less from a desire to validate his rule than to humiliate Tsvangirai.
Tsvangirai "is frightened of the people," Mugabe told the crowd. "He ran and sought refuge in the Dutch Embassy .... Seeking refuge from what? Nobody wants to harm him."
In pulling out of the race Sunday, Tsvangirai said an onslaught of state-sponsored violence against his Democratic Movement for Change made competing in the runoff impossible.
The party said Tuesday that the chairwoman of one of its provincial branches was the latest victim when she was attacked and seriously injured by Mugabe loyalists in a northern region that has seen some of the worst violence.
The party also said the rural home of its national organizing secretary was attacked Tuesday by Mugabe loyalists in military uniform. The party said the official's 80-year-old father was beaten and two other relatives were shot in the legs.
George Sibotshiwe, a spokesman for Tsvangirai, said the politician had received a tip that soldiers were on the way to his home Sunday, when he announced he was pulling out of the runoff.
Sibotshiwe would not reveal the source of the tip, and said the soldiers' intentions were unclear.
But "the moment you have soldiers coming your way, you just run for your life," Sibotshiwe said. "The only way he can protect himself is to go to an embassy."
Sibotshiwe was speaking in Angola after fleeing Zimbabwe earlier in the week. He said he saw armed men approaching a safe house where he had been staying in Zimbabwe and feared arrest.
Other opposition officials were also in hiding, among them Tsvangirai's campaign manager, Sibotshiwe said, adding that officials were no longer working out of the party's headquarters in Harare for fear of arrest.
Tsvangirai told the Dutch national broadcaster NOS radio Tuesday that the Dutch ambassador had spoken to the Zimbabwean government and received assurances there was no threat. Tsvangirai said he might leave the embassy Tuesday or Wednesday.
But the U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe, James McGee, said Tsvangirai should be wary of government assurances and that violence was escalating against the opposition as election day approaches.
"There's really nothing that we can do in the international community to stop these elections," McGee told reporters, adding that the embassy expected Mugabe militants to force voters to go to the polls Friday, and to attack anyone who does not. -
Yo! Guest. If you actually want to have a conversation by all means post a LINK to an article and start a discussion. Just pasting a whole story here without an real discussion will just bore people and they'll end up not reading it. Sad but true.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Zimbabwean officials sent out invitations Sunday to a presidential swearing-in ceremony, hours after Robert Mugabe declared himself the winner of the country's runoff elections.
A government official confirmed to CNN that invitations had been sent out, but said the ceremony would not be held until official results were announced some time Sunday -- and a winner declared.
A Zimbabwean journalist told CNN there was a lot of activity at the presidential residence Saturday night. Tents went up and trucks drove in and out of the property, leading reporters to speculate that a swearing-in ceremony for Mugabe may be in the works.
Mugabe has already declared himself the winner of Friday's runoff, even though the election was strongly questioned by a group of African lawmakers who observed the polls.
Mugabe was the sole candidate in the runoff. Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out, citing violence and intimidation that he said was carried out by Mugabe's supporters.
Mugabe said he won in all parts of the capital city of Harare and many parts elsewhere. He added that he did not know what prompted the people to vote in such overwhelming numbers, unlike the March elections when the divided outcome forced the presidential race into a runoff.
Mugabe made the claims Sunday at a funeral for his wife's relative. It was broadcast on state television.
Members of the Pan-African Parliament observer mission said the election was not "free, fair and credible."
"The environment was tense, hostile and volatile," said Marwick Khumalo, a lawmaker from Swaziland. "And there was a high level of intimidation, violence, displacement of people, abduction and loss of lives."
The mission said opposition parties were not allowed to hold rallies and were shut out from broadcasting their campaign messages on state-run media.
"There was hate speech, incitement of violence and war rhetoric that instilled fear and trepidation amongst voters," Khumalo said.
Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga called on the African Union to send in troops to Zimbabwe, saying the ongoing crisis in the country is a "shame and embarrassment."
Odinga, a former opposition leader who became Kenya's prime minister after a power-sharing deal following a disputed election in that country, made the comments during a visit to his home province.
He made a similar appeal during an interview with CNN earlier this month.
"The information that we have right now is that Mugabe is proceeding with impunity, completely disregarding the world opinion," he said. "And I have suggested that the United Nations should support the African Union and come up with a peacekeeping force that will be deployed in Zimbabwe so that some calmer decisions can be facilitated."
Opposition leaders and international observers have called the election a sham -- a word that President Bush also used to denounce the voting.
The Sunday results come two days after the balloting. The two-day turnaround time stands in sharp contrast to the five weeks it took the election commission to release results from the March 29 election.
Supporters of opposition candidate Tsvangirai said he had defeated longtime president Mugabe on March 29. But when results finally were reported, the Mugabe-appointed commission said Tsvangirai had won but fallen short of the 50 percent needed to avoid a runoff.
"Turn out was very low," Irene Petras, executive director of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, told CNN Sunday. "A lot of people [were] dragged to the polling station to fill out a ballot paper."
MDC party also reported that supporters of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front Party herded rural voters to the polls and forced them to vote. The party said about 90 of its supporters have been killed in the weeks preceding the election.
Zimbabwe's Deputy Minister of Information, Bright Matonga, said he would not "dignify the charges with comment" and said the voting process was peaceful. He also said MDC members and supporters burned down some polling stations.
Tsvangirai remained holed up for a sixth day Saturday at the Dutch embassy in the capital, Harare, party spokesman Nelson Chamisa said.
Tsvangirai, who fled there citing threats to his safety, was deciding his movements based on "security assurances," Chamisa said.
Matonga on Saturday said that the government would be willing to sit down with Tsvangirai and MDC members "as long as they are not pushing the British agenda or an American agenda."
Mugabe recently labeled the MDC a creation of the West, the state-run Herald newspaper reported.
However, Tendai Biti, MDC secretary-general, emphasized Saturday that the runoff had closed some doors in the eyes of the MDC.
"A government of national unity, as far as we're concerned, is history," he said, saying that some sort of transitional arrangement might be possible. -
Wow, this is riveting. But, I've got laundry to do. Some friends of mine are in Africa- maybe I will get some feedback from them and chance a discussion. 8) sorry- it's just one of those days...
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