Crime against humanity : the case for urgent action on Zimbabwe
In our latest Sokwanele release, mailed out today, Cardinal Napier and Archbishop Pius Ncube, two leading clerics in the Roman Catholic Church, stress that if the United Nations’ Security Council does not respond quickly and decisively to ensure that food aid comes into the country and is distributed fairly to all communities without political interference, it will become complicit in the rapidly unfolding humanitarian disaster. Both men have separately called on the United Nations’ Security Council to take responsibility for the crisis and act immediately. They join other regional church leaders in branding the Mugabe regime guilty of a crime against humanity in relation to the politicization of food, and in calling upon the international community to act.
In July, the Executive Council of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa noted: “There is little doubt that we are witnessing a tragedy of unprecedented enormity. We have on our hands a complete recipe for genocide.” They went on to urge the international community to act “vigorously” to expose the tragedy of Zimbabwe.
While Zimbabweans face death by starvation, the man at the centre of this crime against humanity, robert mugabe, is due to today address an international gathering as part of celebrations marking the Food and Agriculture Organisations’s 60th anniversary (BBC report here).
The full Sokwanele release is available on our website here.
Zimbabwe, Mugabe, United Nations, Famine, Starvation, Sokwanele
