Some good news: Avient is being looked at by the British police, who have been reading my posts about this. I’m going to try to get a formal statement from their press office tomorrow.

Fot those unfamiliar with Angola, there is just no way that a trade union will put pressure on the MPLA and refuse instructions to offload a ship!

In Angola where the regime of Dos Santos reigns supreme NOBODY will be any wiser as to whether the ship was offloaded or not.

The continued silence of the US and British administrations about their observations of the matter – is deafening!

Anyway, thought you’d like to know that China now denies that the ‘first’ shipment was offloaded. They must still be under pressure if they are prepared to make a statement.

China denies weapons shipped to Zimbabwe
http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN148156.html

I wonder if the xenophobic attacks on Zimbabweans in South Africa was not a smokescreen created to divert the world’s attention away from what’s happening in Zimbabwe – and the Chinese arms issue?

Time to bombard FIFA – and the Olympics Committee…?

I see Hillary Clinton has made a statement about the Zimbabwean situation. It would be good to get this as an issue for Obama too.

It is interesting that you have not responded to Fish Eagle’s statement that your aircraft IL-76 registration number Z-WTV actualy and physicaly belongs to the Zimbabwe Air Force.

It is so that your new IL-76 aircraft EW-263TH is registered in Belarus, but come clean on your relationship and partnership with the Zimbabwe Air Force, emenating from your days of providing them aircraft, crews, and maintenance for their aircraft, and converting Antonov-12 aircraft to rudimentary bombers that your crews flew and bombed the Goma and Kisangani area’s in the DRC with.

Please elucidate and explain how you manage your relationship with the Zimbabwe regime, how they allow a “much hated” British national to own and operate an aviation business in Zimbabwe, and what price you pay for this obvious convenience, and the role that Mr Lewis Kling plays in this process.

You can be sure that when the RGM regime comes to a fall your convenient collaboration and relationship with the regime will be exposed, that is the nature of these processes, and your business and registration of convenience will summiraly be terminated. Better still, that you will will be held accountable and responsible for your collusion with this evil regime!

If your company’s website so honourably professes that you dont fly weapons and ammunition, why do you neglect to mention that you did in the past, or at least qualify your observation “that you no longer do so”!

Your chickens are coming home to roost and soon your role in destabilising Africa and the suffering that you have caused innocent people through your actions WILL be exposed.

sorry, ” First hand Knowledge” I forgot Belarus and Belgium

I would love a response from you.Are you asleep in Germany cuddling your lap-top. The RGM regime will fall. You will be implicated in some of it’s excesses. Talk to us.!!

The only way you have of preserving your company is to refuse to become implicated in the movement of arms and personnel to suppress the democratic will of the people.

PS. you don’t list branches in Vatry or Zimbabwe in your company submissions to company House. WHY??

The question is how to you turn pawns into queens and gain power on the political chess board.

Hello Mr Andrew Smith..Your protestations of innocence are at odds with your reputation among professional pilots. Let me list the facts

The plane which delivered the arms is owned by the Zimbabwe Government. Your employees piloted and serviced that plane. It is in your livery. You have an extensive and embracing agreement with the regime which allows you to dominate the Zimbabwe Air Freight services.

I could go on and list the act committed in DRC and Sierra Leone but i would be straying off subject.

You are putting profits before people!!!

As to the subject at hand, the recent attacks in Alex may sadly be an impetus for change in South AFrica’s handling of Zim. While I think emailing FIFA is a great idea, I would also suggest emailing Jacob Zuma’s people. I’m not a fan of Zuma, but he’s one of the few SA politicians who has been on the right side of the Zim issue and with this new problem of Alex, he could once again propel himself into the public eye by pointing out that the influx of immigrants has a lot to do with instability in Zim. ie stop the instability in Zim, you curb the influx of refugees.

Anyway, I’ll raise teh issues on my blog and I’ll try to freelance some articles about the subject as well as sending emails to anyoen I can think off (including Senators. Barrack Obama and John McCain). If there is anything else I can do let me, and us, know.

Could be a rumour that Zanu PF has started to raise alarm in the MDC and keep the MDC leaderless going into the elections. If Morgan is not in the country and when Zanu PF propaganda machine kicks in a lot of time will be lost getting leadership advice from outside the country.
Morgan and MDC need to be smart and take action and remain focussed on their own agenda and not get drawn into Zanu PF stoushes.

The electioneering has not begun it is about to heat up.

I am wondering if anyone has seen these horrors taking place in South Africa.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7407914.stm

Nana

There are rumours of a partnership with highly placed official/s in Zimbabwe.

Its nice to know the concern exists…I know we have never communicated before… I have a tarnished reputation here, but would speak to you at greater length to see if the kind of help you wish to provide can assist a project I seek to set up for the country. If you dont mind kindly contact

r.evolution@hotmail.co.uk

If the press reports are to be believed about Avient’s Ilyshin being used: they are in breach of E.U. and U.K. arms embargo currently in place against Zimbabwe.

See http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/910

In particular there is contact info for the UK’s department of trade, embargo desk. We can also get in touch with Corner House and Campaign Against the Arms trade, who’ve successfully been involved w/bringing to court a legal challenge to the Government’s halting the inquiry into BaE systems’ bribery scandal.

They may be interested

Corner House:
Telephone: 0845 330 7928 (UK only, local rate)
Telephone: +44 (0)1258 473795 (International)
FAX: +44 (0)1258 473748

Email: enquiries@thecornerhouse.org.uk
Web: http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk

CAAT:
Tel: +44-(0)20 7281 0297
Fax: +44-(0)20 7281 4369
General Enquiries: For general enquiries, including requests for campaign packs (we will need your postal address for this) email enquiries@caat.org.uk.

Press Office: Contact Symon Hill (email press@caat.org.uk or call +44 (0) 7990 673 232)

UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Zimbabwe Desk (+44 (0)20 7008 2902)
On speaking to them speculatively, without naming any company name, about this:
“…all EU companies wanting to transfer arms to Zim — including brokering where no arms pass through the EU — must be applied for IN ADVANCE of the shipment. She said that that gov’t would have to investigate if this law were violated.”

I’m sorry I’ve not been active…I started a very intensive course this last week that doesn’t permit free time. I’m hoping folks here (and others) will be able to follow up.

with sadness and yet hope,

peace to all.

After Mogadishu, Kabul and Baghdad, though, I don’t know how willing the leadership of the U.S.A. will be to help. Our own elections are veiling dire situations like yours, and Mr. Bush has proven unwilling to give anything more than lip service. What can individual U.S. citizens do to help you? We ARE watching what’s happening there, and we DO care very deeply for your future. Since it is unlikely that our political leaders will do anything significant, what can we do?

Keep heart and stay safe. Hope.