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Petition launched for a Zimbabwe Truth and Reconciliation Commission
27 Nov 2017 at 01:15hrs | Views
An online petition launched calling for a 'Zimbabwe Truth and Reconciliation Commission' which will be delivered to David Coltart. The petition started by Audrey Van Niekerk aims to have 100 signatures and by Monday morning it already had 47 supporters.
SIGN PETITION >>>> HERE
The petition read, "For the past 37 years, Zimbabwe has been ruled by a regime bent on destroying a hard won democracy, which many of its future saboteurs fought hard to establish.
"Rigged elections, arrests and incommunicado detentions,disappearances of political opponents, extra judicial killings of innocent women and children,looting of Zimbabwe's treasury by a kleptocratic regime, sabotage of the national economy, became commonplace in this beautiful land.
"Unemployment of 90%. Yes, 90%! There are many Zimbabwean men women and children who were born during this time who have not experienced the dignity of having a job and earning a paycheck. Economic ruin across all sectors is regarded as the norm. Zimbabweans die daily due to disease and health issues that are avoidable.
"A genocide named Gukurahundi in the early 1980's resulted in the massacre of over 20,000 people. A later similar urban destruction of property and arrest of innocents was carried out by the regime in an operation named Murambatsvina.
"The First Lady and her cronies have looted billions of dollars in diamonds and other precious resources. A former vice President's daughter was stopped short of trying to sell over 3 tons of gold to a Swiss company.
"The national treasury is empty. People are starving. There is no clean water, and sanitation and electricity and other utilities are sporadic.
"We need immediate jobs, food and medicines for the rural and urban people who have nothing. Above all we demand Dignity, Democracy and the Rule of Law and the Dignity of Work!"
SIGN PETITION >>>> HERE
The petition read, "For the past 37 years, Zimbabwe has been ruled by a regime bent on destroying a hard won democracy, which many of its future saboteurs fought hard to establish.
"Rigged elections, arrests and incommunicado detentions,disappearances of political opponents, extra judicial killings of innocent women and children,looting of Zimbabwe's treasury by a kleptocratic regime, sabotage of the national economy, became commonplace in this beautiful land.
"A genocide named Gukurahundi in the early 1980's resulted in the massacre of over 20,000 people. A later similar urban destruction of property and arrest of innocents was carried out by the regime in an operation named Murambatsvina.
"The First Lady and her cronies have looted billions of dollars in diamonds and other precious resources. A former vice President's daughter was stopped short of trying to sell over 3 tons of gold to a Swiss company.
"The national treasury is empty. People are starving. There is no clean water, and sanitation and electricity and other utilities are sporadic.
"We need immediate jobs, food and medicines for the rural and urban people who have nothing. Above all we demand Dignity, Democracy and the Rule of Law and the Dignity of Work!"
Source - online
