Hallo Michael, ich stimme Dir in fast allen Punkten zu. Jedoch spricht nicht viel dafür, dass Makoni und Mutambara „trojanische Pferde“ Mugabes sind, haben sie doch ihre Stimme hinter Tsvangerai gestellt im Falle einer Stichwahl – wenn sie denn dabei bleiben. Für Tsvangerai wäre eine Stichwahl aber persönlich sehr gefährlich! Nicht umsonst hält er sich im Ausland auf zum Schutz seines Lebens. Ich erinnere daran, dass er im letzten Jahr stundenlang von den „Bombern“ fast totgeschlagen wurde, ein Wunder wie er es überhaupt überlebt hat. Im Parlament hat die Opposition schon jetzt eine bequeme Mehrheit. Nur, was soll ein Präsident Mugabe ohne eine Parlamentsmehrheit machen? Keine Sorge, das wird geregelt. This is Africa! Das “Weichklopfen” oder Töten der Oppositionsmitglieder und ihre Vertreibung (mit Abbrennen ihrer Häuser) hat auch den Effekt, dass sie im Fall eine Stichwahl nicht mehr im Wählerregister sind, folglich nicht gegen Mugabe stimmen können. Mugabe ist – bei aller persönlichen Verletzung und Verbitterung – nur noch die Marionette des Militärregimes, welches nicht nur den Entzug ihrer wirtschaftlichen und politischen Pfründe, sondern vor allem strafrechtliche Verfolgung für ihre Verbrechen befürchtet. Mugabe könnte sich leicht ins Exil begeben, er hat massive Reichtümer im Ausland geparkt. Es sind seine Statthalter, die einen Wechsel am meisten fürchten. Aber glaube nicht, dass bei einem Wechsel zu Tsvangerai das Land in einigen Jahren schon wieder blüht, er ist durchaus kein unbeschriebenes Blatt. Gutgemeinte (blauäugige) wirtschaftliche Unterstützungen aus dem Ausland würden ebenso in den Hierarchien eines neuen Regimes versickern. This is Africa, man soll sich nichts vormachen!
SA ends Security Council term, blasts US and UK SABC May 02, 2008, 18:45
Thami Dickson, New York South Africa has wrapped up its UN Security Council Presidency with a swipe at the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US), accusing them of seeking to embarrass them and overshadow their presidency with the Zimbabwean presidential electoral crisis.
It says by so doing, London and Washington neglected the southern Africa mediation efforts currently underway in Zimbabwe.
EINSCHUB: So kann man es natürlich auch nennen! 😈
South Africa had dedicated its UN Security Council presidency to Africa's peace and security challenges. The highlight of South Africa's presidency was the historic Summit of Heads of State, which produced a binding resolution cementing a close relationship between the African Union and the UN on peacekeeping and conflict resolution in Africa.
Dumisani Kumalo, the Permanent Representative of South Africa to the UN, says: "(We) also shares the concerns of the Zimbabwean government, that the UN Secretary General should be neutral in his handling of the political problems in that country."
During its presidency, South Africa says it has also highlighted the proliferation of small arms in Africa and increased momentum on finding a solution to the Somali crisis.
Darüber hinaus hat Südafrika gegen eine Resolutionen gestimmt, die eine Aufforderung an das Militärregime in Myanmar, die Menschenrechtsverletzungen im Land zu beenden, beinhaltete. Ebenfalls hat es alle Versuche der UN, den Druck auf Zimbabwe zu erhöhen, blockiert.
Snipers assembled to snuff out MDC officials The Zimbabwean
Friday, 02 May 2008 20:08 A group of 18 snipers has been assembled in Harare in a bid to assassinate MDC officials following the defeat of Zanu PF in the 29 March elections, reports the MDC Press department.
The killers have set up a satellite base opposite Support Unit in Chikurubi, Harare. The team has been supplied with 10 new Toyota Hilux single cab vehicles which have number plates that range from ABD 1650 to 1659 among other equipment.
Their main targets in the operation; are all MDC officials including Members of Parliament and key members of the MDC secretariat based at Harvest House in central Harare.
They have been briefed to kill or maim those officials who are involved in the day to day operations of the party.
The Zanu PF youth militia and other armed people purporting to be from the ZNA and police have been assaulting MDC supporters across the country in an attempt to cripple the operations of the party following victory in the 29 March elections.
At least 20 MDC activists have been killed by Zanu PF members while hundreds have been displaced from their homes after they had been burnt or destroyed. The displaced MDC supporters are now in need of humanitarian assistance. Scores of MDC activists have also been arrested on trumped up charges across the country as efforts to weaken the party mount.
However, the MDC remains resolute it will emerge victorious following its impressive performance in the elections.
Last week Harvest House was raided by the police who took away important MDC documents including computers in its attempts to stifle the operations of the party.
Dasfindet Unterstützung durch die Regierungen Südafrikas und Namibias:
Corpses Rot As Zanu PF Terror Moves A Gear Up Zim Standard
Local Saturday, 03 May 2008 18:15
At least four bodies of MDC supporters, reportedly murdered in the on-going political violence, are decomposing at Guruve Hospital in Mashonaland Central after their relatives fled their homes to seek refuge in urban areas.
Normally the relatives would have taken care of their burial arrangements.
The four were reportedly killed in Muzarabani and Dande areas by suspected Zanu PF youth militia, war veterans and soldiers as political killings increase across the country.
Guruve hospital authorities confirmed to The Standard on Wednesday they had four bodies of people killed in politically-motivated violence, which started soon after the 29 March elections.
The Standard had visited the hospital to confirm if the body of MDC activist Crispen Chiutsi, allegedly killed by soldiers in Chief Kasekete’s area in Muzarabani on 22 April, was still in the hospital mortuary.
"We still have Chiutsi’s body here," said one hospital official, who could not be named for security reasons. "You want to go and bury it? It might be dangerous for you guys since you said you are coming from Harare. There are three other bodies of people killed in Dande but the relatives cannot bury them."
"People from that area (Dande) need God’s intervention. They are torturing and killing each other like they don’t have any conscience," said the official, as he perused the mortuary register.
From the hospital, the crew set off for Chiutsi’s home village in Chief Kasekete’s area about 100 km away. When the crew arrived in Muzarabani, Chiutsi’s neighbours and other villagers would not talk to strangers because of fear.
They would give monosyllabic answers and move away. The terrified villagers only chatted freely with people with whom they were familiar.
But even those who opened up advised the crew to leave the area as soon as possible before soldiers and Zanu PF youth militia noticed their presence.
"We hear the body (Chiutsi’s) is still in Guruve because his relatives fled to Harare," whispered one woman, who was selling bananas at Muzarabani centre. "It’s better you leave this area before you are noticed by the youths. They will gang up against you."
The woman, who claimed to be Chiutsi’s neighbour, said most MDC supporters had fled the area after they were tortured by war veterans and soldiers camped at Muzarabani police station.
Several houses belonging to suspected MDC supporters have been razed to the ground around Muzarabani business centre and Hoya, 40 km to the east.
In Centenary and Mvurwi in the same province, war veterans and Zanu PF militia have reportedly gone on the rampage, torturing opposition supporters and setting their houses ablaze before chasing away the villagers.
Victims said more than 500 huts were burnt since 29 March in Muzarabani alone.
On Wednesday, war veterans and youth militia evicted more than 20 families from Chipanza and Goviti farms, accusing them of voting for the MDC.
They were given 10 minutes to pack their life time belongings and leave. More than 60 people are staying by the roadside along the Mvurwi-Centenary road because they have nowhere else to go.
On Wednesday night, the victims lit small fires with which to cook their supper and warm themselves for there was no shelter over their heads.
The fortunate ones managed to take along with them all they could grab out of their houses.
They had little radios, mats, wardrobes, beds and kitchen units strewn all over the tall grass.
Clever Chiusaru (38), an MDC activist at Goviti Farm, was forced out of the farm when his child, Taizivei (8), had gone to Chimurenga School in the neighbourhood. "I don’t know if I will ever see her again. I can’t go back there because they will kill me," said Chiusaru, as he covered the younger child, Mercy, sleeping in the tall grass under a thin sheet.
Mercy was not only at the mercy of the weather but snakes, scorpions and wild animals.
Chiusaru feared the Zanu PF thugs would sell his household property and feast on the chickens and five goats which he left behind.
"They will slaughter my goats and feed themselves at the base," he said.
A 74-year-old grandmother was among over 60 people staying by the roadside.
"I don’t have anywhere to go. I have lived here the whole of my life. This cold will kill me today," she said wrapping her thin body with a thread-bare towel.
"But what I know is that like Banda (Kamuzu Banda former Malawi president), Mugabe will one day leave office. Unfortunately, I might not be able to see that day."
Less than 10 metres away in the tall grass was two-month-old Tendai Meza crying, possibly because of fatigue. She had spent the whole day on her mother’s back and sleeping rough might have caused her too much discomfort.
"I think she is hungry because my breasts have no more milk," said Tendai’s mother, Tracey, who worked at Chipanza Farm. "I have not eaten since this morning and this is 9PM."
The farm workers’ union, the General Agriculture and Plantation Workers’ Union of Zimbabwe (GAPWUZ) said it was disheartened by the attacks on people in the farming communities.
"These attacks are a fresh revival of the horrendous experience that the vulnerable communities went through during 2000 and are perpetrated by people who have no regard for human life," said GAPWUZ.
On Friday the MDC claimed at least 20 of its supporters had been killed in the on-going violence since the elections.
Party spokesperson Nelson Chamisa said the number of MDC supporters killed by Mugabe’s youth militia, war veterans and soldiers was increasing on a daily basis.
He said over 5 000 families had been displaced while 800 houses had been burnt down since the elections.
"This is a humanitarian crisis of gigantic proportions which now needs the intervention of the United Nations. It is a disaster that the international community is ignoring," Chamisa said.
But as the violence continues, Mugabe’s government has vehemently denied anything of that sort was happening in the country.
But the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has demanded that Zanu PF stop the violence or Zimbabweans would be forced to retaliate.
It urged the brutalized "to remain strong and resolute and not be apologetic" for voting for the party of their choice.
Terror of Rhodesian bush war days returns Harare - There are now about 7 000 casualties of the rapidly worsening violence in Zimbabwe as the military's campaign against the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) opposition party hots up, according to doctors treating the injured. Statistics gathered countrywide in Zimbabwe this week show that only 10 percent of those beaten and tortured are able to get medical treatment. At least 700 people have been treated since the elections. ... "The Mugabe regime descended on the defenceless people of Zimbabwe as retribution for voting for change. Command structures for the campaign of violence are now fully operational. "Mugabe's illegitimate and repressive rule has degenerated into a fascist dictatorship reminiscent of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge reign of terror in Cambodia. It is a crime against humanity … and an abomination for former liberation fighters to indulge in retributive atrocities and human rights abuses against the people they fought to liberate."
Tsvangirai would be as mad as Bob to stand in these circumstances South African President Thabo Mbeki, having failed to query how Zanu-PF knew the result of the presidential election a month before the ZEC, and ignored all reports of murder, torture and intimidation which started immediately thereafter — no doubt in anticipation of the run-off Mugabe had decided on — has now advised religious leaders that he is sending a team to investigate the claims of violence being made in Zimbabwe.
Die Munition scheint rechtzeitig zur Sticwahl in Zimbabwe eingetroffen zu sein:
Weapons arrive in Zim - report The Weekender quoted a Mozambican online newspaper, which reported that the ship had been refuelled by the SAS Drakensberg off the coast of South Africa before sailing north to offload its deadly cargo.
It reported that the ship was offloaded at Ponta Negra in the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, Zimbabwean government officials said it was offloaded in Angola.
The report said that President Thabo Mbeki gave "a direct instruction" to Deputy Defence Minister Mluleki George to send the SAS Drakensberg to refuel the An Yue Jiang.
Presidential spokesperson Mukoni Ratshitanga dismissed the reports, saying "it seems that the season of propaganda is upon us".
George said he had no instruction from Mbeki to dispatch the SAS Drakensberg and that the allegations had no substance.
However, the online article also said the arms were flown to Harare in an Ilyushin Il-76 belonging to Avient Aviation, a freight charter airline based in Zimbabwe but registered in the UK. This was confirmed by government officials in Harare, The Weekender said.
Der nachstehende Link dokumentiert die Verletzungen der armen, im obigen Artikel genannten, Frau. Vorsicht, die Fotos sind hammerhart! Im Zweifel lieber nicht anschauen!
was ist das da, was aus ihrem Pops rausragt?????????? O_O
Oh je...! Die arme Frau!!!
Schläft ein Lied in allen Dingen,
Die da träumen fort und fort,
Und die Welt hebt an zu singen,
Triffst Du nur das Zauberwort.
- Joseph von Eichendorff
Wirklich keine schönen Nachrichten, die seit gut 14 Tagen aus Zimbabwe kommen. Die Stichwahlen werden zur Farce verkommen, wenn nicht interveniert wird - und da sehe ich weiterhin nur die "Chance" über Mbeki. Vielleicht sorgen die Unruhen in Johannesburg für ein Umdenken bei Mbeki, allerdings habe ich bisher keine Zeit gehabt, mich über die Hintergründe des Mobs in Johannesburg schlau zu machen.
Hier ein aktueller Artikel zu den Ausschreitungen in Südafrika - Mbeki macht wirklich keine gute Figur, Zuma dürfte vermutlich besser den "Nerv" treffen (ich weiß noch nicht, ob ich das "gut" finden soll):
Wo sind eigentlich die Gewerkschaften, die sich auf die Seite der Bevölkerung in Zimbabwe geschlagen hatten und ein Entladen des chinesischen Waffenfrachters zunächst verhindern konnten?
Mein Hinweis auf die Gewerkschaften gilt weniger dem Entladen des chinesischen Frachters, sondern deren offensichtlichem Schweigen bei den Ausschreitungen in Johannesburg.
Es scheint (leider) wie so oft zu laufen: wenn es mir nicht gut geht (Arbeitslosigkeit, Krankheit, Hunger, Perspektivlosigkeit), lasse ich meine Wut/Ohnmacht an den Ausländern aus - ganz so fremd ist uns das in Deutschland ja auch nicht...
Free food for Zanu-PF supporters Harare - Zimbabwe's ruling party has set up a special committee to ensure voters do not go hungry ahead of a run-off presidential election in June, state media reported on Monday.
Zimbabwe admits arms weren’t delivered HARARE (Sapa-AFP) - The Zimbabwe government Thursday denied taking delivery of a consignment of weapons from China after a ship carrying the arms was prevented from unloading its cargo.
Mbeki tells Bush 'to butt out' President Thabo Mbeki has sent a four-page letter to President George Bush criticising the United States for its stance on Zimbabwe.
Foreign diplomats 'attacked' in Zim Harare - Zimbabwean police detained US and British diplomats on Thursday, slashing the tyres of their cars after they visited victims of political violence ahead of a presidential election run-off, the US embassy said.
Mbeki tells Bush 'to butt out' President Thabo Mbeki has sent a four-page letter to President George Bush criticising the United States for its stance on Zimbabwe.
Foreign diplomats 'attacked' in Zim Harare - Zimbabwean police detained US and British diplomats on Thursday, slashing the tyres of their cars after they visited victims of political violence ahead of a presidential election run-off, the US embassy said.
Ein wenig mehr Phantasie - eben weil es so wenig offensichtlich ist.
Zum Kollegen Bush kann man nur sagen, dass er schon lange jegliche Vorbild- und Vorreiterfunktion verwirkt hat - obwohl er in der Kritik an Mugabe Recht hat. Aber wer im Glashaus sitzt, braucht mit Steinen nicht zu werfen - ich erinnere nur an die mittlerweise mehrfach bewiesenen Manipulationen bei den Stimmauszählungen im Rahmen der US-Präsidentschaftswahlen 2000. Die "vorbildlichen" Verfehlungen der Bush-Administration haben leider auch die Position Europas in Afrika nicht gerade verbessert.
Oh Mann... der Mann leidet offensichtlich an Alters- und Größenwahnsinn. Kann der nicht endlich die endgültige Ziellinie überschreiten? Ich wundere mich, dass den noch niemand der dortigen Bevölkerung auf die Idee gekommen ist, den Mugabe aus dem Weg zu schaffen.
Das sagt wohl wieder alles !! Es kann einfach keine "Wahlen" in diesem Land geben - und ein paar UN Beobachter sind einfach lächerlich
Hier wäre ein echtes UN Friedensmandat mit Truppen wie seinerzeit in Namibia und Angola angebracht - aber das bleibt wohl ein Wunschtraum
People will be too terrified to vote' in Zim
15 June 2008 10:00 A defiant President Robert Mugabe on Saturday vowed he would "go to war" if he lost the presidential run-off due to take place in less than two weeks.
Describing the opposition as "traitors", he claimed Zimbabwe would never "be lost" again. Speaking at the burial of a veteran of the independence war, Mugabe said he would never accept the Movement for Democratic Change taking over. "It shall never happen ... as long as I am alive and those who fought for the country are alive," he said. "We are prepared to fight for our country and to go to war for it."
The threat was seen as an angry response to the pressure mounting on the government from other African leaders over the regime's harassment of the MDC leadership and supporters in the run up to the 27 June election.
On Saturday, MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai was arrested again and held for three hours as he tried to campaign in the countryside. There was also a stand-off between lawyers and police in Harare's high court before Tsvangirai's deputy, Tendai Biti, finally appeared before a judge.
Earlier, according to opposition lawyer Lewis Uriri, police had told the judge, Justice Ben Hlatshwayo, that they did not think his order to produce Biti in court was genuine. A handcuffed Biti eventually told reporters that he was "fine". Police said he faced treason charges -- which carries the death penalty -- stemming from a document they claim was a blueprint for regime change. He is also accused of spreading false information for releasing the opposition's own tally from the first vote in March.
With the MDC leadership under constant harassment, voters being beaten and killed and what amounts to a curfew in some MDC rural strongholds, the likelihood of the 27 June run-off taking place in any meaningful way seems remote.
Even if the 9 231 polling stations open, there is a shortage of officers prepared to risk monitoring them. The number of international observers the government intends to let in remains unclear. Although the first of the 400 monitors for the Southern African Development Community have arrived, they have yet to be accredited by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, whose own status is weakening -- a memo from police chief Faustino Mazango, leaked to the Zimbabwe Independent newspaper, ordered his officers to take charge of the "whole voting process". Police had been, he said, "too docile" during the March poll.
Rini Chipfunde, director of the leading independent monitoring group, the Zimbabwe Election Support Network, said the authorities were creating an environment in which only police, soldiers and ruling party officials would be present at polling stations in rural areas. "People will be too terrified to vote," she said. "Others may be bussed in by the ruling party to cast their ballots under the watchful eye of police officers."
Sources across Zimbabwe have reported an increasing number of roadblocks manned by militias and war veterans, effectively cutting people off and creating a dusk-to-dawn curfew.
James McGee, United States ambassador in Harare, said 30 000 potential MDC voters had fled their constituencies. Mugabe has already ordered charities to stop work, leaving millions struggling to find food in the collapsed economy.
A total of 67 people have been killed and tactics familiar from past state violence campaigns are returning -- sticks rolled with barbed wire, whippings and arson. The internationally-touted "third way" -- a government of national unity (GNU) -- has been met with stiff opposition from the military, Zanu-PF and many in the opposition who want no truck with Mugabe.
Andrea Sibanda, of Matabeleland Freedom Party said: "Whoever is floating the idea of GNU with Mugabe and Zanu-PF must be coming from another planet. How does one unite with them when their hands are dripping with blood of their kith and kin?'
In an interview with the Observer, Jabulani Sibanda, the Zimbabwe Liberation War Veterans Association chairperson, also ruled out a national unity government. He said: "We do not want the West interfering in the affairs of the country and so we are going to vote for total independence. As long as we have a government voted for by the people, there is no problem. In fact, we are still to take more farms because there are some white farmers protected by party heavyweights holding on to land that belongs to the black majority." - Guardian
Mbeki defends stance on Zim Replying in the National Assembly to points raised during the debate on his budget vote, Mbeki said there were "some farther afield from us who choose to describe us as a so-called rogue democracy ... because we refuse to serve as their subservient klipgooiers (stone throwers) against especially President Robert Mugabe".
This is no election. This is a brutal war. More than 100 have died and thousands have endured savage beatings in the lead up to Zimbabwe's presidential run-off.
Mugabe's men bring rape and torture to Harare suburbs Yvonne Chipowera doesn't know the names of those who raped her, whipped her with sjamboks and urinated on her face while making her call Zimbabwe's opposition leader a dog. Her ordeal lasted 16 hours.
Zimbabwe shows Africa is still in the despots' grip 'In short, thank God that I am an American,' I wrote back in 1997. And seeing all that is happening now in this country, and across the African continent, that is one sentiment, despite the criticism, I cannot change.
I think this article and this response demonstrates a common problem with people of African origins in the West. They so want to see the good side to Africa they will ignore reality. The truth is Mugabe was always a vile man. There is no way that someone who came to power murdering children and nuns would be anything else. Indeed Jimmy Carter handed power over to him because there was no chance ZANU-PF would have accepted any other outcome and rather than support democracy, Carter caved in to those threats. There is no good news story in Africa. Well Ghana perhaps to some small extent and of course Botswana. South Africa will go Zimbabwe's way next.
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