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Human Rights Watch madness

22 May 2014 at 09:39hrs | Views

Organisations, such as the Human Rights Watch (HRW), should be exposed and flushed out of the country for publishing false and unfounded information. In its report titled ‘Zimbabwe: 20 000 Relocated to Ruling Party Farm: Flood Victims Face Loss of Food Aid Unless They Grow Sugarcane', the Organisation purport to be sympathetic to the people while advancing the regime change agenda.

The implementation of human rights, as a vanguard towards regime change, is riddled with controversy and extensive debate at policy level. It has never been the West's idea to consider the human nature of non-European races, especially in light of historical processes such as colonialism that saw black people reduced to the status of lesser human beings. In Zimbabwe, Non Governmental Organisations and the human rights issue are inextricably linked. Several NGOs, including the notorious Human Rights Watch, have been masquerading as enforcers of human rights. The outcome of all this posturing over human rights is to build a case against Zimbabwe as a violator of human rights requiring urgent action, classically in the form of military intervention. Notable examples of this strategy include the overthrow of Gaddafi in Libya and the Western involvement in fomenting the ongoing Syrian crisis.

In Africa, during the colonial era, the issue of human rights was a "non-issue" and never raised at  international fora . With independence, many post-colonial states, especially in Africa, are suddenly under the microscope for alleged human rights abuses. The same Western nations that stood by the sidelines during the colonial era, as human rights were trampled underfoot by brutal colonial administrations, are now hypocritically crying foul. Let it be known to the Human Rights Watch that it is a known fact that the concept of human rights was a post-independence strategy by former colonial powers to protect their wealth accumulated through the pillage and plundering of resources during decades of forced labour and extensive abuse of indigenous black people's human rights. Where were you Human Rights Watch during an era in which countless comrades were massacred by Western-backed colonial regimes?

The Western countries and their stooges have absolutely no moral standing when it comes to discussing human rights and democracy in Zimbabwe .It should be known that the concept of human rights has become a neo-colonial tool of the West and is being used to perpetually oppress the indigenous people through systems of global capitalism.
 

Source - Stewart Murewa
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