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MDC-T UK demands fresh UN-supervised election in Zimbabwe
21 Jan 2014 at 03:45hrs | Views
MDC Birmingham interim branch chairman, Peckson Paul Kazingizi, has called on MDC-T activists to rededicate themselves to the struggle for democracy following the stolen election in July last year.
Kazingizi has come back to the UK after failing in his bid to win a Parliamentary seat in Uzumba Maramba Pfungwe where the Zanu-PF election-rigging machinery ensured that he did not win the election.
He said this week that his branch had also resolved to take the issue of the stolen election up with the British politicians and call on them not to recognise the Harare regime of Robert Mugabe.
European Union (EU) sanctions on Harare are due to be reviewed at a meeting next month after some sanction had been dropped following Zanu-PF agreeing to go to free and fair elections.
The EU's position had been to remove some sanctions in order to encourage Zanu-PF to hold peaceful, free and fair elections, after which the rest of the sanctions would be removed.
But the July 31 elections were neither peaceful, nor free, nor fair as they were militarised and rigged in what the MDC-T said was a "sophisticated militarised operation" possible - with millions of dollars worth or diamonds used to mount the operation.
Now the EU must decide whether to live by its commitment to the will of the majority of the Zimbabwean people, or whether it will betray them and continue with business as usual with the illegal regime.
Kazingizi said what he hoped was that the EU and great Britain would stand with the people of Zimbabwe and now support their call for elections supervised by the United Nations.
"They have shown that they would cheat in elections and barr monitors from neutral countries, then go and cheat in the elections, so the only way that we can have credible elections is if the UN supervises the next election," he said.
On the day of the election Kazingizi told the Voice of America in this interview how he had been cheated in the election and how he was not accepting the results.
He even said as a candidate he was not going to sign the V11 form to confirm that the election had gone on well, but the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission still went on to declare the result.
Kazingizi said if the election cannot be reversed, then the least that the international community can do is to ensure that the next election is going to be free and fair, and that can only be done if the Zanu (PF) government is taken out of the equation.
"Imagine if they can cheat when we are in a unity government, what of now when they have more than four year to prepare their cheating strategy.
"The international community must support us, by making it clear to Robert Mugabe's regime now that he must agree to UN-supervised elections, otherwise the MDC-T may as well not go to the elections."
Another of Kazingizi's concerns was that many Zimbabweans in the UK had either become disheartened after the July 31 election or had now allowed fear of Zanu (PF) persecution to overtake them that they were now taking the back-seat in the struggle.
"This is not right, because the struggle now needs them more than ever, otherwise our country will be relegated to a failed state by Zanu (PF)," said Kazingizi.
He said he was also receiving reports of some Zimbabweans who applied for asylum in the UK and were accepted as refugees from the Mugabe regime, but are now actively supporting Zanu (PF) from the UK.
"If the coalition government is serious about controlling illegal migration, these are the people that they should send home so that they can go and experience what their Zanu (PF) government is doing," he said.
Kazingizi said following his branch resolution, he was going to make it is mission to bring to the international community the true colour of the Zimbabwean regime by distributing MDC-T Election Rigging Dossier to them.
He appealed to all Zimbabweans in the diaspora, or in exile from the increasingly desperate regime in Harare, to unite and speak out against the brutality, corruption, collapse of health and education and poor Governance, through demonstrations on behalf our brothers and sisters back home.
Issued by MDC-T Midlands North District Information and Publicity Department e-mail mdcmidlandsnorth@yahoo.co.uk tel:+447503322918
Kazingizi has come back to the UK after failing in his bid to win a Parliamentary seat in Uzumba Maramba Pfungwe where the Zanu-PF election-rigging machinery ensured that he did not win the election.
He said this week that his branch had also resolved to take the issue of the stolen election up with the British politicians and call on them not to recognise the Harare regime of Robert Mugabe.
European Union (EU) sanctions on Harare are due to be reviewed at a meeting next month after some sanction had been dropped following Zanu-PF agreeing to go to free and fair elections.
The EU's position had been to remove some sanctions in order to encourage Zanu-PF to hold peaceful, free and fair elections, after which the rest of the sanctions would be removed.
But the July 31 elections were neither peaceful, nor free, nor fair as they were militarised and rigged in what the MDC-T said was a "sophisticated militarised operation" possible - with millions of dollars worth or diamonds used to mount the operation.
Now the EU must decide whether to live by its commitment to the will of the majority of the Zimbabwean people, or whether it will betray them and continue with business as usual with the illegal regime.
Kazingizi said what he hoped was that the EU and great Britain would stand with the people of Zimbabwe and now support their call for elections supervised by the United Nations.
"They have shown that they would cheat in elections and barr monitors from neutral countries, then go and cheat in the elections, so the only way that we can have credible elections is if the UN supervises the next election," he said.
On the day of the election Kazingizi told the Voice of America in this interview how he had been cheated in the election and how he was not accepting the results.
He even said as a candidate he was not going to sign the V11 form to confirm that the election had gone on well, but the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission still went on to declare the result.
Kazingizi said if the election cannot be reversed, then the least that the international community can do is to ensure that the next election is going to be free and fair, and that can only be done if the Zanu (PF) government is taken out of the equation.
"Imagine if they can cheat when we are in a unity government, what of now when they have more than four year to prepare their cheating strategy.
"The international community must support us, by making it clear to Robert Mugabe's regime now that he must agree to UN-supervised elections, otherwise the MDC-T may as well not go to the elections."
Another of Kazingizi's concerns was that many Zimbabweans in the UK had either become disheartened after the July 31 election or had now allowed fear of Zanu (PF) persecution to overtake them that they were now taking the back-seat in the struggle.
"This is not right, because the struggle now needs them more than ever, otherwise our country will be relegated to a failed state by Zanu (PF)," said Kazingizi.
He said he was also receiving reports of some Zimbabweans who applied for asylum in the UK and were accepted as refugees from the Mugabe regime, but are now actively supporting Zanu (PF) from the UK.
"If the coalition government is serious about controlling illegal migration, these are the people that they should send home so that they can go and experience what their Zanu (PF) government is doing," he said.
Kazingizi said following his branch resolution, he was going to make it is mission to bring to the international community the true colour of the Zimbabwean regime by distributing MDC-T Election Rigging Dossier to them.
He appealed to all Zimbabweans in the diaspora, or in exile from the increasingly desperate regime in Harare, to unite and speak out against the brutality, corruption, collapse of health and education and poor Governance, through demonstrations on behalf our brothers and sisters back home.
Issued by MDC-T Midlands North District Information and Publicity Department e-mail mdcmidlandsnorth@yahoo.co.uk tel:+447503322918
Source - MDC-T Midlands North District Information and Publicity Department
