Some hard vibes there!

I remember the previous war, and it really wasn’t that different except that then there were two groups of people bullying the rural populace into accepting their authority, rather than one.

When not hand wringing over Zimbabwe, I’m a psychologist by occupation, and from that viewpoint have been wondering about these extremely gruesome acts of torture, which can only occur when in the eyes of the perpetrator, the victim has been completely dehumanised.

Ghastly as the alcohol fuelled, morally lost Green Bombers and Zimbabwean paramilitaries may be, it seems much more likely from a psychological perspective that these acts are being carried out or at least initiated by foreign mercenaries.

I am not saying that all Hutus or any other group are bloodthirsty and barbarous. You have to look at the history: how these particular individuals came to carry out such acts in their own country, their sense of frustration and rage at being driven out, their involvement as mercenaries in other conflicts and much else. It is so much easier to see a victim of another ethnic or language group as non-human than one who speaks your own language, even if you hate what that person stand for. Such perpetrators will carry out their acts with the unemotional savage efficiency of Roman soldiers crucifying Jewish dissidents!

It would be very dangerous, but if it is possible to obtain proof of these foreigners being involved in torture camps, or of material Chinese support for the Zimbabwe military, that is the kind of information that might finally inspire the moribund institutions of the AU, SADC and UN to react, if anything can. Certainly it would cause a fresh torrent of outrage, including in South Africa and make it clear to anyone in ZANU PF who still has a conscience, that criminal prosecution is inevitable for those who collude.

What a shame indeed. Try going on to the u- tube website and see what mugabe did before this. He had murderers trained by the Koreans to kill zimbabwean citizens.

Koreans, chinese and Hutus are not zimbabwean by the way. How long will it take people like ‘shame’ to stop theorising about the ‘west’s negative reports’. Do you seriously believe that locals who have witnessed this are lying.

Please understandad one thing. There is something called propaganda it is used to stifle accurate information and fuel zanu friendly information.

During an earlier genocidal venture like this (in Matebeleland), any ordinary citizen who said the truth about what was happening was charged with treason.

I am not surprised at all if mugabe and his people are using hutus or anybody else. They have been to the great lakes region on military so called peace keeping operations, I’m sure they saw what could benefit them if a similar situaution arose in their country. Learn this one thing, they are clutching on to power at all costs.

To the extent of treating their own people in a dehumanised and atrociuos manner. Rape, mutilation, torture, beatings, burnings, on ordinary citizens, unarmed is cowardly and disgraceful. And you Shame think reports about this are a western ploy. What a shame!!

You may be hutu yourself and might have taken offence to what some of your kinsmen have suddenly been turned into, which is a shame!!

Should it be true that mercenaries are now ‘employed’ it would be for the benefit of their greater experience in warfare tactics, discipline, etc. something that many of the militia lack. Every effort should be made to confirm if there are indeed mercenaries involved.

It would certainly, put a whole new perspective on what some seem to regard as an ‘internal affairs’.

SHAME ON AFRICA!!!!!!!!!

Burial of the Dead

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,

And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
Come in under the shadow of this red rock,
And I will show you something different from
Either your shadow at morning
Striding behind you,
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

“A Third World diplomat told IPS that both Russia and China, which jointly vetoed a Western-sponsored resolution to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe last week, apparently indicated they were willing to abstain on the vote provided the United States, France and Britain would give an “up-front assurance” that the Security Council would hold back the indictment”

link: http://allafrica.com/stories/200807141818.html

This is getting to be really cynical.!!! or is it just me.