- I am a white Zimbabwean who was born in this country,
as were my parents. I do not have any claim to any other citizenship in
the world. Unlike most of my white country folk I do not have anywhere
else to go and I do not want to leave my country and the people both black
and white that I love.
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- This week I have had countless black friends, colleagues
and employees literally break down and weep over the result of this
election.
I have been a political activist for the past 2 years. Now I speak to you
all with a desperate plea from my shattered heart over the terrible news
of having Mugabe rule us for six more, tyrannical years. We cannot survive
three more months. As just an ordinary, peace loving person I cannot
understand,
like many of my countrymen many things.
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- Do not believe for a moment that the rural people voted
for Mugabe. They simply did not vote so Mugabe's men did for them. Quite
easy when you have arranged that there is no MDC representation at 42%
of polling booths, so there is no check on the boxes. The road to the
polling
station is lined with militia (with red berets) And the CIO are conducting
things their way. There was a large element of his terror tactics working,
mentioned later in this document. How do you explain an 80% poll anywhere
in the world but they managed it in Mashonaland East. The area of greatest
intimidation in Zimbabwe. That means they had to process 14 votes per
minute.
I voted in one of the more efficient urban stations and by the time a voter
was checked off the voters roll, had is I D checked been given his ballot
paper, had it explained how to fold it, mark it and a present it to the
polling officer the entire process took approximately 1 person per
minute.
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- Why can't the international human rights bodies,
governments,
United Nation, Commonwealth do more to help us?. You have talked and
talked---we
need drastic action. As with Hitler, is the world going to continue to
talk to this maniac. Are you in 50 years time still going to be trying
to charge him and his cronies for human rights violations - are you going
to continue to turn another blind eye, or just verbally condemn what is
going on but do nothing. Isn't the 1980's Gukurahundi enough evidence of
ethnic cleansing to demand more than talk now twenty years later!! Why
would sanctions worry a man who has absolutely no moral fibre at all. The
international community's handling of this man is like a mother with a
spoilt brat throwing tantrums and the mother feeding it sweets in the hope
it will shut up and behave. As soon as the mother's back is turned the
child taunts her.
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- Sanctions won't worry them because you can be sure they
will have so much money hidden away under other names you don't worry them.
I doubt it is even bothering them that their children have to leave their
universities. You also gave them so much warning of your sanctions they
have had ample time to make a plan.
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- I know it is not international policy to interfere in
the courts and laws and running of another country but surely the time
has come now to change that before we have a million dead Zimbabweans.
You can only play by the rules if both sides know them. Thus there is no
point in suggesting a coalition government because Mugabe does not even
listen to the parliament he has, having bought a comfortable majority of
ministers on his gravy train. People who have already seen enough of their
colleagues killed in mysterious car accidents because they tried to be
brave and speak out. There is no point in taking this to court in Zimbabwe
because he has fixed that with bought judges. Funny that some of his new
judges are suddenly the owners of lovely new farms!!!
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- You know he stole the majority in parliamentary elections
rigging 30 seats that were rightfully MDC and what have the by-elections
of those likely to bring but more rigging and deaths. We are as helpless
as the Jews were in the concentration camps and I can promise you much
of the seen support for ZANU PF is poor innocent people being led to
believe
they will live and see their starving children fed. Do not
underestimate
the power of the gods in the beliefs of the black man. Mark my words
they have used these evil powers fully. Can you imagine, as a small
child, seeing your parents and brothers and sisters being herded into a
hut and burnt to death (just close you eyes for a minute and hear the
screaming).
Now 15 years later as a young adult a troop of the same terrifying men
in the same red berets arrive and at gun point march you to a polling
station.
I defy anyone to take anything but the line of peaceful resistance. I know
because in 1982 I was marched off into the bush with my sister at gun point
whilst I left my 6 month old baby in the car being prodded by a man in
a red beret with his bayonet. We were very lucky and were rescued but I
can assure you there is no fear like it.
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- Ask the BBC for a copy of the film shown on Sunday 13
March at 8.05pm. Panaroma called "The Price of Silence" Look
at your pompous High Commissioners and Foreign Diplomats, with the hot
potatoes in their mouths. I quote their interviews on this film
"Reports
of FAIRLY brutal" "It is a pity", "Reports rather blown
up" "Steer clear of it" "Not risk a row with"
"Use quiet diplomacy" "We talk nicely to them but they
wouldn't
listen so we left and DID NOTHING". The Foreign Office told Prince
Charles "It was all exaggerated". The Deputy High Commissioner
"We condemn it but have no right to interfere" "It was a
side issue" Shame on all of you, people like you, share the blood
on Mugabe's hands. How can you comment "it's a pity" as if a
child spilt the milk, when, in fact, a bunch of hired, carefully trained
maniacs brutally cut the foetuses out of pregnant women s stomachs. I'm
sure if it was your wife "it's a pity" would hardly be your
comment.
How DARE YOU comment so pompously when 10's of thousand of the most
innocent
people in this world were and still are being massacred. Wake up! This
man has no morals. Listen to people like Bishop Pius Ncube and please
protect
him, he, above all people needs to be awarded a bravery award of the
highest
level. When ARE YOU going to arrest Perence Shiri for his crimes against
humanity like you have done with Milosovic.
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- Mugabe is worse than Hitler because he leaves the maimed
behind to serve as a constant reminder to the rest of the village of what
he is capable of. Death from his wrath comes to the lucky ones. There are
thousands of reports, all documented by the Amani Trust for anyone who
has the guts to read even a portion of it. Your silence is deafening. Why
can't one of you arrest this man, and charge him in an international court
of justice for human rights violations. After all he has ordered rape,
murder, burnt our houses, stolen land for his people (I don't mean his
recent redistribution but the farms taken from farmers as far back as the
1980's) and given it to his cronies instead of the people who have waited
20 years for him to deliver. Land that now stands derelict and unused.
If we could see that land given to the people was producing food for the
people, farmers would happily give more and help poor peasant farmers get
started. What is the point of giving to war vets--a true war vet in this
country should be facing retirement because, if he made a substantial
contribution
to the liberation war he should have served that for at least 5 years of
his adult hood must make his age at least 45 years old. The land must be
made available to young (at present unemployed) Zimbabweans coming out
of Agricultural college, together with soft loans to develop and make
economic
progress with it. But please use what you have already stolen before you
grab more.
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- We cannot rise up in Zimbabwe because, contrary to
Mugabe's
belief MDC does not have weapons . If the people were to rise he would
simply gun them down with his ridiculously huge army which has drained
our resources for years. We don't want a bloody Sunday. We can't do a
sustained
stay away because the average Zimbabwean is living hand to mouth so cannot
afford to put away enough food to survive it. Aside from which Mugabe has
made it abundantly clear he couldn't care less about the economy, therefore
the economic effect of a long stay away would only affect the people. Most
of his army are our relatives anyway, people forced to do what they don't
believe in or they face death and death to their extended family. Oh yes!!
If I was brave enough to stand up on my own my whole family would be
punished.
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- My friend was arrested this weekend ( together with at
least 1,300 others) for carrying a catapult (sling shot) a toy most
little
boys carry from the age of six!!. He is still in prison--or shall I say
in a Zimbabwean concentration camp. Unlike the prisons in Europe they do
not get a T.V to watch or a book to read. The prisons have absolutely NO
form of amusement, education or rehabilitation therapy. They have no
working
toilets, you are only allowed to use the toilet twice a day outside. The
blanket you might be offered is so full of human faeces you would rather
freeze than use it. You are not allowed to wear underwear, you are not
given or allowed to receive from outside basic human needs, sanitary towels
(Yes let your imagination run wild, HIV etc), soap, toothpaste, toilet
paper. So a prison sentence for any woman is a death sentence. You are
given two small bowls of maize porridge with a small raw leaf of rape a
day. There are 20 people in cells designed to house six. To sleep you have
to all turn over at the same time. Does this not ring a few bells of
Germany
in the war!!!! And they all come equipped with their own torture chambers.
Bear in mind that many people are in prison at the moment are only guilty
of love of his country . I keep toilet paper, toothpaste and soap in my
bag all the time. What a joke they probably wouldn't let me keep it
anyway.
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- Please do not insist on another election and then let
Mugabe run it. The evidence is all there, how this election was mastermind
of rigging. Why didn't the international community insist that SADCC run
these elections. We have to have Perspex ballot boxes, that are held
outside
the country until the day before and watched from the minute they arrive
here. Ballot papers need to be printed by an independent body and the
layout,
colour of paper etc kept absolutely secret until the minute the first voter
arrives. There needs to be an army of well-trained observers to ensure
that the pre-election groundwork is not carefully orchestrated long before
monitors arrive
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- Start looking now (especially South Africa) for observers
who have some guts and will go out to rural areas and actually see for
themselves the villages surrounded by militia, instead of sipping Gin and
Tonic in your hotel then ambling off to an urban, low density polling
station
at 4.00 in the afternoon. There were more than enough people around to
show you where to look!! What? were you on some sort of sight seeing
safari!!
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- Mr Mudede's voters roll is a joke. My name appeared twice
(lucky me!!!) and my deaceased sister is still on there. No doubt the Zanu
PF supporters (leaches) probably appear 6 times each. Mind you I suppose
if I saw my children starving before my eyes I might be inclined to go
to rallies and chant songs and beat up a few people on the way for five
hundred dollars a day and a bag of unobtainable mealie meal. We should
all be allowed to vote if we have any form of Zimbabwe identification--even
someone who has only just got his Zimbabwean residency has a concerned
interest in how he is ruled. Why can't Zimbabwean's living outside this
country vote when they are probably economic exiles who long to come back
to live here. They probably have a bigger concerned interest in the
recovery
of their country because they are prisoners elsewhere.
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- South African's - it's time for you to ask questions
about how this affects you?
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- 1. Your state funds last week provided a very luxurious
holiday in the Sheraton hotel in Harare for your hand picked observers,
nice and safe and far away from any real trouble.
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- 2. What is your president's agenda with his quiet open
support of Mugabe and quite obviously your observers were primed to find
this election free and fair to suit some other political agenda.
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- 3. Have you ever asked, which is your right, for an audit
of Sasol and Eskom's Zimbabwean debt. Somebody is paying for it and it
sure as hell isn't us. Are you happy that you continue to pay my
electricity
and fuel bills? Note that NOCZIM paid the hotel bills for Mugabe's militia
staying in the top Harare hotels before and during the elections Money
that should be going towards paying the ever-increasing debt to South
Africa.
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- 4. Above all else you need to consider that if your
president
continues to turn a blind eye and his observers can blatantly ignore what
is happening in Zimbabwe, what is his future plan for South Africa.
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- What can you do??
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- Send this to anyone you know who would be remotely
interested
in Zimbabwe and ask them to sent it to their M.P/senator anywhere in the
world and ask them to take it to parliament. Send it to anyone you know
who has connection with The Hague, U.N., E.U., NATO, SADCC, Commonwealth
and any newspapers. If possible follow them up with a phone call next week
and ask them "What have you done??".
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- Bombard Embassies with it and demonstrate (peacefully),
photocopy it and dish it out, Cause mail overload, phone and physical
pressure
and when you have done all this PRAY FOR US.
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- We are as helpless as the Jews were during the 2nd world
war. Wasn't the man Chenjerai Hitler Hunzvi enough to raise at least
international suspicions of who this man's role model is.
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- PUT ALL THIS PRESSURE ON these bodies THE MESSAGE IS
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- STOP WASTING TIME TALKING. WHAT WE NEED NOW IS ACTION
AND FAST!!!
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- I face two years of imprisonment for expressing these
views in this country, so I'm forced to use a pseudonym - but many of you
will know who I am
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- Thank you all for your support
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- A True Zimbabwean
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