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Bereft, desolate, helpless and hopeless

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

… just a few of the adjectives I could use to describe my current state of mind as I choke from the veil of evil that cloaks our beloved Zimbabwe. The hunger is palpable, the catatonic stares of its people should haunt the world, their muted cries go unheard and still nothing is done.

Talk is easy, action it seems is unlikely to materialize.

The churches are desperately trying to stretch their meager resources to bring a little sustenance to the starving masses made homeless by the very government that arrogantly states it has done no wrong.

How dare Mbeki even consider propping up the man who has with monstrous design crafted the impoverishment of those he claims to represent. I wonder if this devil is able to sleep at night with the blood of innocent victims now a sea around him. How does he kiss his own children on their way to school when he has stolen the future from the hundreds of thousands of children denied shelter and nourishment, children his government have declared trash and maggots.

I pray one day this evil man is forced to answer for his crimes and that his children will rightly reject their tainted heritage, the term father is made corrupt when used in connection with the murderer mugabe.

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Zimbabweans protest at Chinese aid for Mugabe

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

Announcement circulated on behalf of ZimVigil. Please contact ZimVigil if you have any questions about the protest.

Exiled Zimbabweans are to stage a demonstration outside the Chinese Embassy on Friday, 29th July, in an attempt to persuade China not to give financial support to prop up the ailing Zimbabwean economy.

Mr Mugabe arrived in China at the weekend for talks with the Chinese leadership and it is reported that he is seeking US$1 billion. He has already requested a similar amount from South Africa and is reported to be also asking other countries, including Namibia, for money.

The demonstration is organised by the Zimbabwe Vigil, which has been protesting outside the Zimbabwe Embassy in London every Saturday for nearly 3 years in support of free and fair elections. A group of Zimbabweans from Birmingham, who instigated the protest, are to be present at the demonstration, which will take place from noon to 2 pm.

The Chinese Embassy has already indicated that it will not allow a petition to be handed over. The petition reads:

“CHINA – DO NOT PROP UP MUGABE: We understand that the aim of President Mugabe’s visit to China is to seek an emergency loan to prop up the collapsing Zimbabwe economy. We advise the government of China that we will support any decision by a new democratic government in Zimbabwe to disown such debts to China incurred by the Mugabe regime, including payment for armaments recently supplied.”

A spokesman for the protest said that, in spite of the unhelpful attitude of the Chinese Embassy, an attempt would be made to hand the petition over.

Under President Mugabe’s despotic rule, the Zimbabwean economy has declined catastrophically in the last 5 y
ears, contracting by about 40%. Unemployment is more than 70% and inflation is in 3 figures. The country has largely ground to a halt because of fuel shortages caused by a lack of foreign exchange. At the same time, millions of people are facing starvation because of food shortages. The situation has been further worsened by “Operation Murambatsvina” under which the homes and informal livelihoods of the urban poor have been destroyed in a move which has been condemned in a recent United Nations report.

Venue: Outside the Chinese Embassy, 49 - 51 Portland Place, London W1B 1JL
Date: Friday, 29th July 2005
Time: 12 pm - 2 pm

Contacts:
Wiz Bishop 07973 521 160
Jonathan Chawora 07723 929 167
Makusha Mugabe 07903 127 073
Dennis Benton 07932 193 467

Website: www.zimvigil.co.uk

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Thabo Mbeki and South African ‘quiet diplomacy’

Sunday, July 24th, 2005

Thabo Mbeki arrives at the G8

BBC News reports that Thabo Mbeki indicated today that South Africa might help settle some of Zimbabwe’s debts.

In addition to this, and especially significant in the immediate aftermath of the UN report’s harsh criticism of Operation Murambatsvina,

Mr Mbeki avoided criticising Zimbabwe’s controversial slum clearance programme, which has left some 300,000 people homeless.

In response, we are re-circulating the Sokwanele G8 cartoon previously published in The Zimbabwean.

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Compassion in the face of terror

Sunday, July 24th, 2005

More innocent people have died in Egypt this week as a result of terrorism, and London has experienced further attempts at terrorism. It is so sad, so terrible and so cruel. I was trying to catch up on international news this morning when I came across this story in The Times (UK).

A Zimbabwean, Abisha Moyo, found himself staring directly into the face of one of the suicide bomber’s on Thursday. The man had boarded the tube and tried to detonate a bomb:

“I was on my phone and remember saying, ‘Oh my God, someone’s been shot’,” said Moyo, a business analyst from Zimbabwe. “I turned round and there was a man lying with
his arms outstretched in a Jesus Christ position, lying on top of a medium-sized black and green rucksack, face up. He had his eyes shut and there was a puff of smoke coming from his bag.”

It’s what Abisha did next that amazes and impresses me. Just two weeks earlier London had suffered it’s worst ever terrorist attack and according to friends of mine there, the city has become much more vigilant and there’s a palpable sense of watchfulness on the tube.

“I went up to him and said, ‘Are you all right, mate?’”

The man ignored him and lay there, presumably waiting for the bomb to go off, before he eventually jumped up to make good his mistake.

But I wonder what went through the mind of that suicide bomber who was so set on destroying innocent lives of people he didn’t know when one of his intended victims approached him with nothing but concern for his well-being?

I wonder what he would think if he knew that that man came from a country caught in the throes of state-sanctioned terror, a country which the rest of world has watched slowly disintegrate and done nothing substantive to stop? Where an estimated 2.5 million people have been affected by Operation Murambatsvina, a gross violation of human rights?

Would the bomber still have thought that killing this man, among others, was justifiable?

I am so proud that this Zimbabwean’s first instinct, despite his Zimbabwean and recent London experiences, was of compassion and concern for a fellow human being. That’s a good example for us all Abisha. Well done!

Mugabe sweeps the ‘trash’ into the country

Saturday, July 23rd, 2005

Barely 24 hours after the police had forcibly removed the homeless victims of Mugabe’s so-called “clean-up” operation from the churches where they had taken refuge in Bulawayo to a holding camp just outside the city boundaries, the police have forcibly moved them on again - this time dumping them almost indiscriminately in rural areas. From the speed with which this latest operation was undertaken it is evident that the police were under orders to clear the holding camp at Helensvale Farm of all its occupants without delay. Little or no consideration was given to the welfare of these destitute people rendered homeless by the Mugabe regime a few weeks ago or to their chances of finding shelter, food, water or other amenities in the famine stricken areas where they were dumped.

This further, again unlawful, forced removal of some of Zimbabwe’s poorest and most vulnerable people, in breach of their fundamental human rights, is believed to be linked to the extremely critical report on the whole “Operation Murambatsvina” issued by the United Nations in New York yesterday.

One of the many victims who had been given sanctuary in the Brethren in Christ Church in Mpopoma township of Bulawayo, phoned the pastor of that church this afternoon to report that he had been transported, against his will and without any consultation, from Helensvale to the rural Tsholotsho. He has no family in the area nor prospect of finding accommodation or employment there. In another bizarre incident it emerged that three former street children from Bulawayo found themselves caught up in the police sweep through the churches on Wednesday night. They were taken to the Helensvale holding camp on Thursday and a day later were transported some 20 kilometres out of Bulawayo before being dumped on the roadside. By Friday evening the three exhausted, hungry and rather bemused street children had walked back into the city.

Of those spoken to by our reporter none had eaten since they were seized from the churches on Wednesday night or early Thursday morning.

Our reporter also spoke to one of those women who had been involved in organising the provision of food to those previously sheltering in the churches. She expressed a particular
concern about two orphaned babies, one aged 4 months and the other 7 months. While enjoying the shelter and provision of the churches these babies had been fed on baby milk formula and cared for by surrogate mothers, but what would become of them when removed from this support network? Other carers from the churches expressed grave concern about some of the frail elderly among the twice, now three times, displaced victims.

It is understood that a group of between 80 and 100 of those previously sheltering in the churches managed to escape the police sweep on Wednesday night and are still at liberty. Bulawayo pastors are meeting over the weekend to consider how they can move them safely, and with some basic provision of food, to rural areas where they will be safe from further police harassment. The church leaders concerned are also to consider how to re-establish links with their former charges, now widely dispersed across the surrounding rural areas, so as to see what further assistance they can render these hapless victims of the regime’s brutal programme of forced removals.

Mugabe’s “Operation Murambatsvina” (meaning “clear away the trash”) was harshly condemned in the report, published yesterday, of the United Nations special envoy, Ms Anna Tibaijuka, to the UN Secretary-General. In remarkably blunt language the report describes the destruction of urban slums as a “disastrous venture” that has left 700,000 people without homes or jobs, violated international law and created a grave humanitarian crisis. By diplomatic convention a copy of the report was made available to Robert Mugabe two days ago. Which raises the question, apropos the latest human rights outrage, whether having been exposed for the criminal that he is, Mugabe actually thought he could get away with it by sweeping some of the evidence away - that is by sweeping “the trash” from the towns into country.

*The UN report is available for downloading here. This article was circulated to our mailing list earlier today.

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Kofi Annan’s statement on Zimbabwe demolitions

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

Full text provided here with emphasis added in blue. Available on Reuter’s here.

“I have received the report of my special envoy on human settlement issues in Zimbabwe, Mrs. Anna K. Tibaijuka, based on her recent visit to the country. I wish to congratulate her on this exhaustive report, and also to thank the Government of Zimbabwe for the full cooperation she received.

“It is a profoundly distressing report, which confirms that “Operation Murambatsvina” has done a catastrophic injustice to as many as 700,000 of Zimbabwe’s poorest citizens, through indiscriminate actions, carried out with disquieting indifference to human suffering. I call on the Government to stop these forced evictions and demolitions immedia
tely
, and to ensure that those who orchestrated this ill-advised policy are held fully accountable for their actions.

“Criticism, while fully justified, is not enough. We have a duty to help those in need. In keeping with the recommendations of my envoy, the United Nations will urgently seek agreement with the Government of Zimbabwe to mobilize immediate humanitarian assistance on the scale that is required to avert further suffering. I urge the international community to respond generously to this call. For its part, the Government must recognize the virtual state of emergency that now exists, allow unhindered access for humanitarian operations, and create conditions for sustainable relief and reconstruction.

“Once the most acute human needs are addressed, the United Nations will play its part, and give whatever help it can, in implementing the report’s other recommendations. Among these is the call for dialogue between the Government of Zimbabwe, domestic constituencies and the international community with a view to working together to address Zimbabwe’s serious social, economic and political problems.

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… it’s the west’s fault, and the west must fix it!

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

If this wasn’t so completely inanely typical of the senseless nature of the zanu-pf government, I think I’d die laughing at its stupidity and cheek. Reuter’s reports that today’s edition of The ‘Horrid’ (state controlled newspaper ‘The Herald’) has quoted Boniface Chidyausiku, Zimbabwe’s permanent representative to the United Nations, calling on the west to help the government in reconstruction post-Operation Murambatsvina.

Amazing! The government sends its militia, army and police-thugs on a orgy of destruction, intimidation and violence - wreaking everything in its path, destroying homes and livelihoods and creating a major humanitarian catastrophe - and then expects the west to step up and fix its mess…?

[The west] can raise funding so that Government can provide cheaper housing to needy people. One would call upon Britain and the European Union to stop their campaign to vilify our economy

Why did it not listen when the west condemned it and warned it? Why did it not stop when international and local human rights organisations and churches begged it to?

Did it perhaps escape their attention that what they were doing was causing considerable harm?

I would have thought the sight of the elderly, the sick and tiny children shivering, starving and frightened in the freezing winter nights would have kind of jump-started that realisation for them; but the fact that, on top of that, they somehow didn’t hear the warnings, pleas and protests from thousands of voices has to suggest that this is one mega-stupid government.

But to top it all, their latest position is that the west should pay because, if you think about, it is the WEST’S FAULT that the demolitions happened. Oh yes! Apparently ’sanctions’ have created the conditions wh
ere people have been forced into hard times and forced to construct illegal homes and move into illegal vending. Hard to understand why, with that insight into the consequences of poverty, they went ahead and destroyed the only home and livelihoods that people desperately trying to survive had?

Were it not for their sanctions, our economy wouldn’t be where it is today … the international community should, therefore, consider themselves equal partners and have a role to play in terms of pulling resources together to build a better Zimbabwe.

However, what they don’t say is that the sanctions are ‘targetted sanctions’ on the leadership and cronies alone - not sanctions on Zimbabwean civilians and businesses. That the economy has gone into the rubbish dump because investors and tourists won’t come to Zimbabwe because they cannot trust a government that completely disregards the rule of law; because our skilled people have left in their droves because they find the government repulsive; and because the government can’t resist politicising industry, mining and agriculture. Our country bears the scars of zanu-pf political manipulation and total incompetence.

This is not ‘the west’s’ fault or responsibilty. zanu-pf is to blame. I hope that the words used in the UN report, possible ‘crimes against humanity’, is making some zanu-pf big-wigs very very scared. Is this why The Horrid has embarked on banal nervous whittering and trembling, I wonder? A bit hard to save face and back track from something so evil, so public, and so irreversable.

The fact that the west did condemn Operation Murambatsvina so forcefully and so immediately means that it has a clear conscience in the wake of the UN report. African leaders, on the other hand, chose a different path, and history will remember that African leaders, again, had to be forced and cajoled against their will into giving consideration to ordinary African people. I hope tonight they are all deeply and profoundly ashamed.

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A little hopeful today … but still very frightened for the people of Zimbabwe

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

I haven’t seen the full report yet but I am daring to hope that at last an organisation that Mugabe will find difficult to ignore has come out and criticised his actions against all of us. Thank you Anna Tibaijuka for your United Nations report.

I was hopeful, but fearful of this report - and I am still holding my breath in case the full version softens the truthful force of the executive summary. We have had betrayal after betrayal after betrayal by Mugabe apologists - like the South African government at election time, or the AU just before the G8 - and the disappointment is unbearable each and every time. I didn’t know if this report would try and pretend that things weren’t too bad in Zimbabwe and step into the murky dark underworld of African patronage and ’silent diplomacy’.

This gives us hope. If the truth is finally told it will support the real experience of ordinary Zimbabwean people and place us at the centre of our country’s future where we belong instead of Mugabe and his band of cruel and evil thugs.

I want
to hear Mugabe describe this report as a ‘western fabrication’. I want to see if Thabo Mbeki can find a way to claim that this report exists only because ‘white people’ are being affected. I want to hear how the AU is going to back track from its position that it won’t criticise Mugabe.

Mugabe got his copy of the report on Wednesday. How could he, knowing the critical nature of the document, go ahead and allow night time raids on that very same evening? Raids against frightened children and their desperately poor families sheltering in churches, frogmarching them against their will into overcrowded ‘holding camps’? Why do this under the cover of darkness? Why would the police then forbid church leaders from having access to the people they’ve been helping by barring them from the holding camps? What are they trying to hide in there?

I can’t help think of history and how dictators have tried to cover their tracks and conceal evidence when things started getting a bit hot. I don’t know what’s happening to the people in the holding camps? Why is it so important that people are locked away, out of the sight of good people and honest witnesses? What’s happening?

I hope this report means that the world is watching. Please watch very carefully. I hope that nations are ready to protect us from any danger that might occur when the Zanu-PF monster goes into a death throes.

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Zimbabwe anti-riot police force homeless to leave the shelter of churches

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

Bulawayo. Baton-wielding police in full anti-riot gear descended on a number of churches across the city last night and into the early hours of this morning to forcibly remove several hundred homeless victims of Operation Murambatsvina still sheltering in the churches. The victims of this latest human rights outrage were awakened from sleep and bundled with their few pathetic belongings onto the back of police trucks believed to be headed for the holding camp recently established at Balu Estate just north of Bulawayo.

The first church to feel the brunt of the police assault was Agape Church in the western suburbs which had been offering shelter to over 200 of those whose homes had been destroyed in Operation Murambatsvina. The police arrived there soon after 10 pm, wearing full anti-riot gear including helmets and batons. Witnesses were appalled at the brutal way in which men, women and children were forcibly removed from the premises. The pastor of Agape Church, Pastor Lucky Moyo, was visibly angered and distressed by the unlawful intrusion of the police onto church premises and the ruthless treatment meted out to poor, defenceless people now forcibly removed for the second time within a space of a few weeks.

The police continued the removal operation through the night, only arriving at the City Presbyterian Church at 4 a.m. this morning and the City Baptist Church some hours later. Their objective was clearly to remove all the remaining internally displaced victims of what has been called the “Mugabe Tsunami” from the churches to a holding centre where they are less visible and access to them can be more easily controlle
d. This move coincides with a recent tightening up of security at the Balu Estate. On Tuesday a Bulawayo pastor who was visiting his parishioners at the holding centre was interrupted in the course of a service of worship and ejected from the site. The authorities administering the camp even refused him permission to return and collect his Bible. The holding centre is now effectively off bounds to pastors and representatives of the Church.

Fr Barnabas Nqindi, the Rector of the (Anglican) Church of the Ascension, was one of those who witnessed the brutal police action at Agape Church last night. He described it as “cruel, nasty … unbelievable”. It was he said “heart rending” to see the innocent victims of the present social upheaval being carted off to face further misery. A few hours later Fr Barnabas himself was arrested and taken to the Ross Camp police centre where he was subjected to hostile interrogation and verbal abuse by police details, some of whom were so young they could hardly have been out of their teens. It was noticeable that these young interrogators wore ZRP uniforms but did not display any numbers or other identification. A number of other pastors tried to intervene on behalf of Fr Barnabas but they were chased away. Fr Barnabas was released from police custody at about 4 am and told to report back at the police station at 9 am.

Apart from the gross human rights abuses involved in their forcible removal, there are fears for the well-being of those now held at the Balu Estate Centre. The Red Cross had provided temporary accommodation in the form of 100 tents, but this latest influx will take the number of refugees to something in excess of 1100, for whom the facilities are quite inadequate. The refusal of access to the Church and the strict control of those entering and leaving the site are also matters of grave concern.

Another local pastor interviewed during this latest outrage commented, “It is utterly barbaric. If this isn’t a crime against humanity, then I don’t know what is. It is high time the UN (United Nations) intervened to stop these atrocities.”

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Alert: Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment Bill No 17

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

Please note that this Bill not only provides for the re-establishment of the Senate under different conditions, but also intends to nationalise farmland identified for acquisition before 8 July 2005 and prevent claims for compensation, legalise discrimination for affirmative action, outlaw activity including travel perceived to be against economic or public interest of the state, etc.

This Bill was gazetted on Friday 15 July and can be debated in Parliament a minimum of 30 days after that date, ie any time from Friday 12 August.

It should be remembered that the people expressed a strong desire for a NEW PEOPLE-DRIVEN CONSTITUTION in the process leading up to the Referendum in February 2000, and they rejected the version prepared by the government-led Consitution Commission because it ignored their wishes and inputs in certain critical areas - eg presidential powers.

Here is another chance for THE PEOPLE to take over the process of constitutional reform, which is the key to moving Zimbabwe out of the current political and economic deadlock towards a new, democratic order.

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le note: this sent to us by email earlier today

Combined effort needed to stop Operation ‘Murambatsvina’

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005

STATEMENT BY DOUGLAS GIBSON MP DA SPOKESPERSON ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Release: Immediate

There are encouraging signs that pressure on Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is hotting up. The World Bank, the IMF, the churches and other African leaders are all coming together to try to force the Zanu - PF government to stop “Operation Murambatsvina” (clearing away the trash).

How President Mugabe thought he could get away with inhumane treatment of his people on this vast scale raises queries about his mental health.

If South Africa and President Mbeki are at last waking up and flexing their muscles there must be some hope for change in Zimbabwe. But it cannot be left for Zimbabwe’s friends alone; what about ordinary Zimbabweans? Surely they are not going to carry on for much longer doing little or nothing to fight their oppressor?

FURTHER INFORMATION:
DOUGLAS GIBSON MP 082 415 5246

MEDIA LIAISON:
ROBERT MACDONALD 072 638 7710

Remember these names

Monday, July 18th, 2005

These are two of the victims of ‘Operation Drive Out Trash’:

Fanadi Manyere, 5 years old, died on Tuesday 28/6/05 after being run over by a car on the Bulawayo road. Early in the morning the Police began beating people and chasing them away so they could proceed with ‘Operation Drive Out Trash’. The confusion caused people to cross the Bulawayo road running away from the police. That is when Fanadi was run over - he died a hour later.

Loice Mandigora, born 1968, died after having been exposed to cold weather, on Thursday, 30/6/05. She died at 5am. Her house had been destroyed by the Police. She was ill already and exposure to cold worsened her illness. She is survived by 3 children.

These people are not trash, they’re our fellow Zimbabweans. One day, justice will be done. We’re not going to forget them.

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Zimbabwe police commit murder in broad daylight and in front of witnesses

Friday, July 15th, 2005

On Sunday July 10 an elderly lady died in Bulawayo’s Gwabalanda high-density suburb. Her death was directly attributable to an act of wanton violence of a police officer or - as one should say these days - by a person wearing the uniform of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP). The incident was observed by a number of witnesses who, not having any faith in the ZRP to carry out a proper investigation and bring the perpetrator to justice, wish to report it first, through us, to the national and international media. This was a savage and unprovoked act committed against an innocent and defenceless bystander. It certainly qualifies as murder, and should be treated as such.

The incident occurred during the demolition of houses by the “police” in Gwabalanda. About 60 uniformed ZRP members, believed to have come from the Luveve Police Station, had descended on the suburb and were going about their now routine work of demolishing habitable dwellings on the pretext the structures are “illegal”. Our informant, whose nam
e is known to us but whose identity must be protected for fear of reprisals from the “police”, said the men set about their work of destruction with gusto. They were armed with pick axes and other instruments suitable for the purpose. Our informant (let’s call him Kofi) watched in disbelief as Mugabe’s storm troops completely destroyed a house belonging to someone he knew who now resides in South Africa. The house in question had been built as long ago as 1957. In fact, Kofi believes it was one of the original, colonial-style houses in this area. (So much for it being an “illegal” structure).

Close by, on plot 8687, was a 7-bedroomed house, to which the uniformed thugs (a purely descriptive term which avoids any risk of inaccurate terminology) next turned their attention. As they set to work demolishing the old house an elderly woman, whose age Kofi estimates at about 60 years, was watching in silence from a distance. One of the uniformed thugs confronted the woman. In an arrogant manner he demanded to know: “Why are you standing there?” When the woman did not answer immediately he struck her across the chest with a garden fork. The woman collapsed and, as it later transpired, she died on the spot. Her assailant conferred with his comrades and in due course a vehicle appeared to take the body away.

Kofi and others who observed the spectacle could hardly believe their eyes. This was murder in broad daylight, the murderer being either a regular member of the ZRP or at least a thug dressed in the uniform of that once-professional body responsible for law enforcement - and so dressed with ZRP’s active connivance. There are witnesses who - subject to certain minimal requirements for their own safety - are willing to tell their story. Here is a case, if ever there was one, waiting for an investigative journalist possessing both courage and integrity, to pursue. Let justice be done, with or without the cooperation of Mugabe’s politicized police force.

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“You are going to see the fire…”

Thursday, July 14th, 2005

A friend of mine in the rural areas has told me his story so that I can send it to you. After DIDYMUS MUTASA’s ‘victory’ celebration after elections Mutasa said, ” I only got 150 votes so now you people are going to see the fire”.

So now their area is being demolished, all their homes, and property have been destroyed. Operation Murambatzvina is now affecting the rural areas, where is everyone going to go now?

There is no place for them in town and now there is no place for them in the rural areas. It seems that this clean up operation is being used by these Zanu PF thugs as retribution on these poor people because they didn’t vote for them.

What happened to Human Rights?

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Zimbabwe shows the AU who’s boss

Tuesday, July 12th, 2005

Mr Nyanduga a member of the African Commission for People’s and Human Rights left Zim
babwe under a police escort. Mr Nyanduga was holed up in his hotel since his arrival. The Government, on Tuesday last week, said it was so preoccupied with the visit by Mrs Tibaijuka that it could not accommodate a concurrent itinerary for such a high ranking AU official at such a short notice. He was therefore refused entry saying that he did not follow all the necessary protocol.

The Chronicle newspaper - or The Chronic, as we call it here (it is a government mouthpiece) - reported :

“All Government protocol were accorded to him since his arrival and when he left he was even given a Government vehicle and was seen off at the airport by Government representatives,” said the official.

“The Tanzanian national (the envoy, Mr Bahame Tom Nyanduga) was caught in a bigger game he did not understand,” said the official.

“The Government will continue to work with the AU as what we have always done and all what we wanted was that they understand our message and we hope they have understood it.”

How easy it is for this government to push people around!

Why would you be denied access, and escorted back to the airport, if there were nothing to hide?

Fortunately for Zimbabweans, the truth will always find a way to get out. I, along with millions of people not only in Zimbabwe and Africa, but across the whole world sit in bated breath awaiting the AU’s reaction to this government’s treatment of one of its officials.

I wonder if the AU will have the balls to stand up against this “message” that has been sent to them?

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