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Mujuru, Mutsvangwa gang up on Mugabe
30 Jul 2016 at 03:12hrs | Views
Zimbabwe People First leader Joice Mujuru and war veterans chairperson, Christopher Mutsvangwa have ganged up on President Mugabe warning him on his inflammatory language.
Mutsvangwa said the country is on the brink of a civil uprising sparked by Mugabe's recent provocative language.
The pair said Mugabe's reference to dungeons and mice as well as his genocidal talk was chilling and worrying.
Said Mutsvangwa "The violence in that language is totally uncalled for in a State that aspires to be a modern constitutional republic. Even unpleasant views should be entertained unless they carry with them the threat of illicit armed enforcement," he said.
"To invoke the danger of armed mutiny among people that were demobilised and disarmed nearly four decades ago and are in their 60s is just misplaced."
Added Mujuru in a statement "We are shocked as ZimPF by President Robert Mugabe's rants against political opponents, especially his revelation that he used to throw political opponents from within his then Zanu into dungeons packed like mice.
"It is quite alarming that, of late, Mugabe has been using the spectre of macabre and grossly horrifying human rights abuses perpetrated by him, his government and his merchants of violence to ward off political opposition to his rule.
"What is worrying, and equally chilling, is that Mugabe is Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Forces. He is the man with hands on the levers of coercive State apparatus and his word is command to the security sector.
"Such a man, therefore, should be measured in the way he speaks, the way he uses power, and should never resort to the use of brute force to deal with opposition to his incumbency," said Mujuru.
"We are worried, as indeed we believe every Zimbabwean is, by Mugabe's utterances, and his threats of unleashing violence on opponents to his regime that are raising their concerns within the provisions of the Constitution, the supreme law of the land."
Mutsvangwa said the country is on the brink of a civil uprising sparked by Mugabe's recent provocative language.
The pair said Mugabe's reference to dungeons and mice as well as his genocidal talk was chilling and worrying.
Said Mutsvangwa "The violence in that language is totally uncalled for in a State that aspires to be a modern constitutional republic. Even unpleasant views should be entertained unless they carry with them the threat of illicit armed enforcement," he said.
"To invoke the danger of armed mutiny among people that were demobilised and disarmed nearly four decades ago and are in their 60s is just misplaced."
"It is quite alarming that, of late, Mugabe has been using the spectre of macabre and grossly horrifying human rights abuses perpetrated by him, his government and his merchants of violence to ward off political opposition to his rule.
"What is worrying, and equally chilling, is that Mugabe is Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Forces. He is the man with hands on the levers of coercive State apparatus and his word is command to the security sector.
"Such a man, therefore, should be measured in the way he speaks, the way he uses power, and should never resort to the use of brute force to deal with opposition to his incumbency," said Mujuru.
"We are worried, as indeed we believe every Zimbabwean is, by Mugabe's utterances, and his threats of unleashing violence on opponents to his regime that are raising their concerns within the provisions of the Constitution, the supreme law of the land."
Source - Byo24News
