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Democracy in African has been used to cause anarchy, violence
22 Nov 2011 at 14:39hrs | Views
Peace loving Zimbabweans must be worried about the visit to Morocco by MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai who is also prime minister in the inclusive Government. Tsvangirai met merchants of violence and civil war; the likes of Kenyan premier Raila Odinga and his Libyan counterpart one EL Keib.
This visit, read together with the MDC-T's alleged recruitment of 340 youths as ''reaction teams'' of violence, poses a threat to the peace and stability of our great nation. Maybe these acts vindicate
Brigadier General Nyikayaramba's assertion that the PM is a security threat not a political threat.
Mozambique was on the verge of falling to Alfonso Dhlakama's Renamo through violence/civil war, were it not for Zimbabwe which provided reciprocative revolutionary help.
Angola suffered decades of excruciating civil war because one of its nationals, Jonasi Savimbi and his Unita, was influenced by the West to fight a civil war.
The DRC nearly fell into the hands of pseudo democrats; were it not for Sadc which came to its rescue but much to the disappointment of the West.
Ivory Coast fell by the sea side when French president Nicholas Sarkozy and the UN sided with Allasane Ouattara: doing so for the love of the tasty chocolate which they want to continue to plunder.
The Ouattara victory was celebrated by the West in the same fashion as the rebel victory in Libya. In all the scenarios highlighted above, African pseudo democrats were used by the West as representatives of modern democracy, architects of good governance and proponents of the rule of law.
In most cases, the "protection of civilians" has been used as a cover for bloody killings and bombings of the same civilians who must be protected.
The recent contemporary example is the Libyan NATO bombings. Over one thousand sorties were carried out, bombing strategic Libya institutions in order to cripple Gaddafi and in the process killing thousands of civilians.
Dear reader, these bombings, invited by the NTC, meant to protect civilians, killed thousands of the same civilians to be protected. In fact, NATO, instead of protecting civilians, they protected NTC officials whilst killing innocent civilians.
The NTC in Libya lauded these bombings for they were not directed on the NTC and its rebel groups but targeted at civilians and Gaddafi strong strategic institutions that included Hospitals.
Under the Geneva Convention, hospitals, civilians and prisoners of war must be spared deliberate attacks and killings. However, the savage NATO forces did not abide themselves to this well acclaimed International Law.
In pursuit of Nato's hegemonic objectives, NATO and NTC forces destroyed hospitals, killed and ill-treated civilians, and prisoners of war respectively.
The guise of protecting civilians and in some instances, fighting terrorism has been used for regime change by the West. Over 160 cities in the Western world are under siege of protesters who are fighting against corporate corruption and greedy executives who bridle politicians. However, the same West is interestingly concerned about governance issues in Asia and Africa. What a shame!
It is in Asia and Africa where it is said there is no democracy; ironically these are the two continents which are endowed with vast resources. In the Persian Gulf States namely, Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi
Arabia, Syria violence has reached an alarming stage. Hypocritically, Britain, France, USA and Israel are only worried about the Syrian scenario. The West favours a regime change concept in Syria whilst they protect the undemocratic regimes in Yemen, Bahrain, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The whole strategy is centred on the need to protect Zionist Israel
People in Africa, must now understand that when the West calls for civilian protection they actually mean civilian destruction by massive bombings, in protection of the officials of the opposition who will after the West intervention sell their sovereignty back to our erstwhile colonisers.
People in cities, as they support these Western machinations, should always remember that they would be the canon and fodder of the Western concept of civilian protection.
The opposition leaders who call for violence, like is the case with the MDC-T, will be given sumptuous protection in order for the West to receive reconstruction contracts and express mining concessions as is happening in Libya.
When one makes an analysis of the country regularly visited by Tsvangirai, the people he meets, one can easily conclude that Tsvangirai is working on a strategy similar to that in Libya. In our culture we always say those whom you associate with are people of the same culture with you.
Odinga is a proponent of violence and civil war who invited the West to interfere in Kenya's internal affairs. The same goes El Keib who was parachuted to the leadership of Libya after spending 30 years in the US.
Why then should our PM always be meeting these proponents of violence? What kind of democracy was our Prime Minister being lectured on by the violent duo whom he met?
In Europe and the USA any politician who rubbishes his/her country outside the national soils would be imprisoned on return. Patriotism and Nationhood are never compromised. Democracy is viewed as a concept of divergence of opinions but not as a platform for one to sabotage his own country by calling for sanctions, violence and civil war. In the US any President who goes out of the "straitjacket" is assassinated.
Barrack Obama tried it as a presidential candidate when he called for Palestinian Statehood. However, he has now realised the need to wear the straitjacket. He is now in the straitjacket and threatening to veto any move to grand Palestine "statehood".
It is only in Africa where traitors are allowed space to carryout treacherous works and get away with murder.
It is only in Africa where democracy has been allowed to unveil its ugly head of violence willy-nilly: carrying out demonic activities of destroying national fabrics by either carrying out terrorist activities like Dhlakama did; or carrying out treasonous and treacherous activities like the MDCs and Mobuto did.
It is only in Africa where people are allowed to engage in ultra violence; turn around and blame it on the government and are allowed to sip wines and soups every dinner. Reagan would never condone it; neither would Thatcher, Blair, Cameron, and Sarkozy.
Democracy in African has been used to cause anarchy, violence etc under the guise of freedom of expression and association.
It is hoped that the sooner the PM realises that dialogue and peaceful engagement are the civil tenets of democracy the better. The youths both from MDC-T and the Chipangano youths need to understand that these neo-liberal democrats that motivate them to be violent were cowards who could not even throw a stone or open their mouth to express their God given human right against the Smith regime.
Now, has Mugabe and Zanu-PF become worse enemies that Tsvangirai, MDC-T and Chipangano youths can only engage them through violence? If the President, a Pan-Africanist, a liberator and a champion of indigenisation and black empowerment could dialogue and peacefully engage the Smith regime at Lancaster House, what motivates Tsvangirai to unleash violence?
Is the PM now the Savimbi, Dhlakama, Ouattara, Mobutu and El Keib of our country? Is the PM importing the concept of civil disobedience applied in the West and North Africa into Zimbabwe? Is this what the MDC-T calls democracy and rule of law?
At SAPES, Professor Kahari proved to be an academia of a non-repute. For a man of a professorial academic stature, to continuously sing about how their was rigging in the 2008 general election, without saying who he was rigging for and what moral high ground was he occupying when he was rigging, belittles the class of his professorship.
However, the professor's main idea is to psyche people to engage in violence in retaliation to these unfounded rabid speculations.
Dear reader, Africa needs to be aware of the pseudo-democrats who have nothing to offer except inviting the West to bomb and kill innocent urban civilians.
Beware of those who want to enslave you through the back of a white man.
It is also hoped that Eric Bloch will soon drop his concept of "I don't agree with the tactics used but the concept is right". This is an idea of theorists who never want to see the advancement and betterment of blacks.
The fact that he likes blacks because his son's best man was a blackman does not equal indigenisation and black empowerment.
He must understand that we need a starting point. Rome was not built in one day. So the indigenous and Empowerment act is Zimbabwe's starting point on its wealth construction process. Icho!
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Panganai Kahuni is a social and political commentator.
This visit, read together with the MDC-T's alleged recruitment of 340 youths as ''reaction teams'' of violence, poses a threat to the peace and stability of our great nation. Maybe these acts vindicate
Brigadier General Nyikayaramba's assertion that the PM is a security threat not a political threat.
Mozambique was on the verge of falling to Alfonso Dhlakama's Renamo through violence/civil war, were it not for Zimbabwe which provided reciprocative revolutionary help.
Angola suffered decades of excruciating civil war because one of its nationals, Jonasi Savimbi and his Unita, was influenced by the West to fight a civil war.
The DRC nearly fell into the hands of pseudo democrats; were it not for Sadc which came to its rescue but much to the disappointment of the West.
Ivory Coast fell by the sea side when French president Nicholas Sarkozy and the UN sided with Allasane Ouattara: doing so for the love of the tasty chocolate which they want to continue to plunder.
The Ouattara victory was celebrated by the West in the same fashion as the rebel victory in Libya. In all the scenarios highlighted above, African pseudo democrats were used by the West as representatives of modern democracy, architects of good governance and proponents of the rule of law.
In most cases, the "protection of civilians" has been used as a cover for bloody killings and bombings of the same civilians who must be protected.
The recent contemporary example is the Libyan NATO bombings. Over one thousand sorties were carried out, bombing strategic Libya institutions in order to cripple Gaddafi and in the process killing thousands of civilians.
Dear reader, these bombings, invited by the NTC, meant to protect civilians, killed thousands of the same civilians to be protected. In fact, NATO, instead of protecting civilians, they protected NTC officials whilst killing innocent civilians.
The NTC in Libya lauded these bombings for they were not directed on the NTC and its rebel groups but targeted at civilians and Gaddafi strong strategic institutions that included Hospitals.
Under the Geneva Convention, hospitals, civilians and prisoners of war must be spared deliberate attacks and killings. However, the savage NATO forces did not abide themselves to this well acclaimed International Law.
In pursuit of Nato's hegemonic objectives, NATO and NTC forces destroyed hospitals, killed and ill-treated civilians, and prisoners of war respectively.
The guise of protecting civilians and in some instances, fighting terrorism has been used for regime change by the West. Over 160 cities in the Western world are under siege of protesters who are fighting against corporate corruption and greedy executives who bridle politicians. However, the same West is interestingly concerned about governance issues in Asia and Africa. What a shame!
It is in Asia and Africa where it is said there is no democracy; ironically these are the two continents which are endowed with vast resources. In the Persian Gulf States namely, Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi
Arabia, Syria violence has reached an alarming stage. Hypocritically, Britain, France, USA and Israel are only worried about the Syrian scenario. The West favours a regime change concept in Syria whilst they protect the undemocratic regimes in Yemen, Bahrain, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The whole strategy is centred on the need to protect Zionist Israel
People in Africa, must now understand that when the West calls for civilian protection they actually mean civilian destruction by massive bombings, in protection of the officials of the opposition who will after the West intervention sell their sovereignty back to our erstwhile colonisers.
People in cities, as they support these Western machinations, should always remember that they would be the canon and fodder of the Western concept of civilian protection.
The opposition leaders who call for violence, like is the case with the MDC-T, will be given sumptuous protection in order for the West to receive reconstruction contracts and express mining concessions as is happening in Libya.
Odinga is a proponent of violence and civil war who invited the West to interfere in Kenya's internal affairs. The same goes El Keib who was parachuted to the leadership of Libya after spending 30 years in the US.
Why then should our PM always be meeting these proponents of violence? What kind of democracy was our Prime Minister being lectured on by the violent duo whom he met?
In Europe and the USA any politician who rubbishes his/her country outside the national soils would be imprisoned on return. Patriotism and Nationhood are never compromised. Democracy is viewed as a concept of divergence of opinions but not as a platform for one to sabotage his own country by calling for sanctions, violence and civil war. In the US any President who goes out of the "straitjacket" is assassinated.
Barrack Obama tried it as a presidential candidate when he called for Palestinian Statehood. However, he has now realised the need to wear the straitjacket. He is now in the straitjacket and threatening to veto any move to grand Palestine "statehood".
It is only in Africa where traitors are allowed space to carryout treacherous works and get away with murder.
It is only in Africa where democracy has been allowed to unveil its ugly head of violence willy-nilly: carrying out demonic activities of destroying national fabrics by either carrying out terrorist activities like Dhlakama did; or carrying out treasonous and treacherous activities like the MDCs and Mobuto did.
It is only in Africa where people are allowed to engage in ultra violence; turn around and blame it on the government and are allowed to sip wines and soups every dinner. Reagan would never condone it; neither would Thatcher, Blair, Cameron, and Sarkozy.
Democracy in African has been used to cause anarchy, violence etc under the guise of freedom of expression and association.
It is hoped that the sooner the PM realises that dialogue and peaceful engagement are the civil tenets of democracy the better. The youths both from MDC-T and the Chipangano youths need to understand that these neo-liberal democrats that motivate them to be violent were cowards who could not even throw a stone or open their mouth to express their God given human right against the Smith regime.
Now, has Mugabe and Zanu-PF become worse enemies that Tsvangirai, MDC-T and Chipangano youths can only engage them through violence? If the President, a Pan-Africanist, a liberator and a champion of indigenisation and black empowerment could dialogue and peacefully engage the Smith regime at Lancaster House, what motivates Tsvangirai to unleash violence?
Is the PM now the Savimbi, Dhlakama, Ouattara, Mobutu and El Keib of our country? Is the PM importing the concept of civil disobedience applied in the West and North Africa into Zimbabwe? Is this what the MDC-T calls democracy and rule of law?
At SAPES, Professor Kahari proved to be an academia of a non-repute. For a man of a professorial academic stature, to continuously sing about how their was rigging in the 2008 general election, without saying who he was rigging for and what moral high ground was he occupying when he was rigging, belittles the class of his professorship.
However, the professor's main idea is to psyche people to engage in violence in retaliation to these unfounded rabid speculations.
Dear reader, Africa needs to be aware of the pseudo-democrats who have nothing to offer except inviting the West to bomb and kill innocent urban civilians.
Beware of those who want to enslave you through the back of a white man.
It is also hoped that Eric Bloch will soon drop his concept of "I don't agree with the tactics used but the concept is right". This is an idea of theorists who never want to see the advancement and betterment of blacks.
The fact that he likes blacks because his son's best man was a blackman does not equal indigenisation and black empowerment.
He must understand that we need a starting point. Rome was not built in one day. So the indigenous and Empowerment act is Zimbabwe's starting point on its wealth construction process. Icho!
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Panganai Kahuni is a social and political commentator.
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