Signing of the Power Sharing Agreement
The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum) welcomes, with cautious optimism, the signing of the “historic” power sharing agreement between ZANU (PF) and the two MDC formations. It is our sincere hope that this agreement will usher in new era of social and economic resurgence, political stability, respect for the rule of law and fundamental rights.
The Forum recognizes that any brokered deal is a compromise arrangement that circumvents the popular will but we believe that the signing of the negotiated power-sharing deal is a good first step towards the process of nation building. The Forum remains adamant that such a process should have the pursuit of truth, justice and national healing as its foundation. The human rights violations that have occurred in the past cannot go without redress. As concluded by civil society participants to the workshop on transitional justice organized by the Forum from the 9th-10th September 2008, the “new Government” should endeavor to establish a transitional justice process that embodies the following fundamental principles: victim – centered; comprehensive, inclusive, consultative participation of all stakeholders, particularly the victims; the establishment of the truth; acknowledgment; justice, compensation and reparations; national healing and reconciliation; non-repetition (never again); gender sensitive; transparency and accountability, and nation building and reintegration.
The Forum is encouraged by several provisions in the agreement that allude to the need for justice and redress for all politically motivated violence and the need for national healing and cohesion. It is our hope that the spirit and letter of the agreement will be translated into policy and practice. The rhetoric of the agreement should now be backed by a concrete action plan that will ultimately result in a new Zimbabwe that has the respect for democracy and human rights as its underpinning values. The will of the Zimbabwean people should never again be circumvented for a political agreement or settlement.
The Forum therefore urges the new Government to embrace the hopes and aspirations of the people of Zimbabwe and work diligently towards a process of economic, socio-political transformation that has as its foundation in truth, justice, and national healing.
September 17th, 2008 16:48
The world should know that there appears to be a breach of justice for the persecuted people of Mthwakazi and Zimbabwe and without their help Mugabe and his criminal cabal will be celebrating in anticipation of receiving the world’s billions in foreign currency so they can continue to rule with fear disguised as a Government of national unity.
I therefore pose this questions to the people of Britain and Europe,
1) Would you have been happy if Winston Churchil had negotiated a new Europe with Hittler as its President after his massacre of the Jews?
2) Would you have accepted it if the United nations had funded Hittler with the much needed foreign currency to revive his army, the police and his economy?
If the world leaders accept this fraud by Mugabe and the MDC they might as well leave Osama bin laden alone.
Mugabe is being shielded by his former Zanu-pf commisar Morgan Tsvangirayi from prosecution. What is TSVANGIRAYI AFRAID OF IF MUGABE IS BROUGHT BEFORE THE INTERNATIONAL COURTS? This deal is nothing but a fuss by the Shona regime.
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