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Writing is on the wall for Mugabe
09 Feb 2012 at 05:02hrs | Views
The external assembly of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in the United States fully supports the sentiments and ideas expressed by Zimbabwe Prime Minister and MDC president Morgan Tsvangirayi in a recent letter to his unreliable partner in the fragile coalition government, Robert Mugabe.
In it, the prime minister lists a litany of issues that clearly demonstrate the cynical, hypocritical and obstructionist nature of Mugabe's approach to the so-called inclusive government, whose third anniversary is approaching. Reading the letter, one gets the unmistakable impression that Mugabe and his party went into the coalition government with only one thing in mind -to buy themselves breathing room by restoring a measure of economic sanity to what was the fastest shrinking economy in the world.
Having essentially achieved that objective, Mugabe and his allies have not moved a millimeter in all other areas covered by the coalition agreement. As the prime minister noted, Mugabe's henchmen in the security services continue to operate outside the law. Opposition parties and their members are under permanent siege and even the prime minister himself is treated like a common criminal.
The prime minister's letter also serves to confirm what many of his supporters have been saying for a long time, namely that the Zimbabwe inclusive government is a farce, a mirage, a fantasy or a hideous dream.
As MDC-USA chairman Mr. Den Moyo noted, Mr Tsvangirayi's letter could easily have been the founding document for the Free Zimbabwe Global Protest (FZGP) initiative which started last month and will continue on a regular basis until Mugabe and his cohorts are finally defeated. Mr. Moyo is also the global coordinator of FZGP.
Meanwhile, the increasingly erratic Mugabe is seeing conspiratorial ghosts everywhere, including an imaginary NATO invasion and a Libyan-style uprising that will topple him from power. Like a cornered beast, Mugabe continues to lash out at perceived adversaries, namely the people of Zimbabwe but even with his wilting 88 year-old eyes, he must be seeing the writing on the wall.
As chairman Moyo put it: "We are a resilient people and we vow not to relent in our efforts to let the world know of the ...atrocities that occur on a daily basis in Zimbabwe."
In it, the prime minister lists a litany of issues that clearly demonstrate the cynical, hypocritical and obstructionist nature of Mugabe's approach to the so-called inclusive government, whose third anniversary is approaching. Reading the letter, one gets the unmistakable impression that Mugabe and his party went into the coalition government with only one thing in mind -to buy themselves breathing room by restoring a measure of economic sanity to what was the fastest shrinking economy in the world.
Having essentially achieved that objective, Mugabe and his allies have not moved a millimeter in all other areas covered by the coalition agreement. As the prime minister noted, Mugabe's henchmen in the security services continue to operate outside the law. Opposition parties and their members are under permanent siege and even the prime minister himself is treated like a common criminal.
The prime minister's letter also serves to confirm what many of his supporters have been saying for a long time, namely that the Zimbabwe inclusive government is a farce, a mirage, a fantasy or a hideous dream.
As MDC-USA chairman Mr. Den Moyo noted, Mr Tsvangirayi's letter could easily have been the founding document for the Free Zimbabwe Global Protest (FZGP) initiative which started last month and will continue on a regular basis until Mugabe and his cohorts are finally defeated. Mr. Moyo is also the global coordinator of FZGP.
Meanwhile, the increasingly erratic Mugabe is seeing conspiratorial ghosts everywhere, including an imaginary NATO invasion and a Libyan-style uprising that will topple him from power. Like a cornered beast, Mugabe continues to lash out at perceived adversaries, namely the people of Zimbabwe but even with his wilting 88 year-old eyes, he must be seeing the writing on the wall.
As chairman Moyo put it: "We are a resilient people and we vow not to relent in our efforts to let the world know of the ...atrocities that occur on a daily basis in Zimbabwe."
Source - mdc
