Torture and violence in Zimbabwe (media extracts)
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- Mike Davis - Chairman Combined Harare Residents Association mp3 file, 1.5MB
- Tendia Biti - MDC Secretary General (Tsvangirai faction) mp3, 921KB
- Arthur Mutambara - MDC leader (Mutambara faction) mp3, 1.41MB
March 16th, 2007 03:37
I give my full support to the people still in Zimbabwe, I regret having left the country, and wish i was there to help and support. My prayers and wishes go out to the people of Zimbabwe, we are all with u in spirit even if we are not able to be there fighting with u in person.
March 17th, 2007 10:08
If this moment is indeed the “tipping point” in Zimbabwe; if this use of extreme violence is actually the “end game” for Mr. Mugabe and the Zanu-PF in Zimbabwe, then all the more important it is for a “revolution” in Zimbawe to be non-violent.
Do not surrender the high moral ground in a freedom revolution by resorting to violence against those who use violence against you. Violence against outsiders in a freedom revolution is understandable; violence in an internal revolution surrenders its moral quality.
Remember Martin Luther King and Gandhi, and how they accomplished so much by using a ‘militant non-violence.’ They changed the entire course of history for their countries.
Finally, find a philosophy to rally the Zimbabwe people, not another ideology. May I suggest the Zimbawe people, if they are truly “fed up” as a people, consider adopting the Philosophy of Human Rights as the grounds for a peaceful, non-violent but militant, freedom revolution? You can find the international scholars involved in the Philosophy of Human Rights at: http://www.philohr.org. Adopting the Human Rights philosophy gives the Zimbabwe people the high moral ground in their efforts to effect freedom in Zimbabwe: the entire world would notice.
‘Be free.’
March 17th, 2007 22:43
It’s the first time I check a blog from Zimbabwe. I couldn’t believe everything you wrote. It sounds so terrible. I promise to read more about your country, and debate it with my friends and mates at the Journalism’s school in University of Santiago de Chile, in Chile.
Zimbabwean situation looks far from our reality, but it’d be nearest if we just empatize with their pain and suffer.
My best wishes from Chile, and I give you the invitation to visit my blog at http://boggito.blogspot.com
Fernando Olmos Galleguillos
Journalist.
56-9-0154302
http://boggito.blogspot.com
March 21st, 2007 09:31
My grandparents used to live in Zimbabwe, they lost their farm in 2002. I hope all Zimbabweans revolt and crush Mugabe. Mugabe had great initiatives in the beginning, but has seriously lost the plot. He is ruining the country and its former economy with each passing day. Plus he has a moustache that looks like Hitler. Revolution is the only solution to Mugabe’s brutal regime. I await his downfall…
March 21st, 2007 21:44
Hitler Mugabe your day will come……….There will be no mercy.
March 22nd, 2007 00:36
We are currently working outside Zimbabwe & feel like such traitors, not being there through the current, senseless turmoil. Our hearts, as always are with all Zimbabwean people, inside Zimbabwe & scattered around the world. Lets all pray that change will come soon & one day all the displaced & scattered children of Zimbabwe can go home to rebuild it.
March 22nd, 2007 16:21
What shocked me about the accounts of Mugabe’s atrocities is how women in particular are being used by this regime. I have suffered serially under Mugabe’s extremeties. My mother was killed in the war of liberation by ‘our’ boys for nothing other than shielding us (there are four girls in my family)from sexual abuse from the comrades. A close friend of mine was amongst the hundreds who were beaten up in the latest orgy of violence. I refuse for my seventeen year old to inherit this legacy of abuse at the hands of one man. I call upon all those committed to change not to give up. My best wishes to all those lying in hosptal injured. It always is darkest before dawn
April 29th, 2008 00:21
Tracey ,I wonder what you mean by, ‘I regret having left the country, and wish i was there to help and support.’ Is there anyone stopping you from going home. Stop acting troubled yet you only hear things that you never experienced. If you really wish to be home then jus go i guess you can get a free ride. Sorry i sound emotional, its because you really sound like you have no idea how people are being killed. I advice you to take a closer look and see if your wish is really a wish or just a movie fantasy…
June 25th, 2008 20:50
To all Zimbabweans,
I am a South African living abroad. I may not be from Zim but grew up close to the country and her people. What we have in common is the fact that we are all misplaced. I can not be there to fight but I can try and raise awareness.
I have started a facebook group “Try Robert Mugabe for crimes against humanity”
Please add your names to this group and invite everyone that you know to join us as we at least try to show support and awareness of the plight of Zimbabwe’s people.
Thank you,
Michael Johnson.
June 25th, 2008 22:20
To Stan,
You ask of Tracy ‘Is there anyone stopping you from going home.’ You unfairly accuse her. For a start, Mugabe and his policies, and his creation of a lawless, ecconomically unviable state could be several reasons preventing Tracy from going home. I, too, am ex Zimbabwe, British and married to a Zimbabwean wife who is currently still in Zimbabwe whilst I battle in UK with the UK immigration. Like Tracy I know how the Zimbabweans are suffering. I do not have to climb into the same sinking ship to make my concerns for them any more genuine. Do not suppose that those left behind are braver in comparisson to those who have the opportunity to move away. It is not bravery or any other similar sentiments that see the majority of Zimbabweans still in Zimbabwe - they are simply caught there at this unfortunate time. You must understand that in this instance I’m talking in generalisations, and so too should you, instead of singling out one person for your emotional attack, as you yourself admit, when you know nothing of the circumstances of anyone who have become separated from Zimbabwe. Is it not enough that despite the distance, Tracy still expresses her support for the land and it’s people?