By Faith Moyo
Over the past 32 years human rights situation in Zimbabwe have been blatantly violated by a black government that masquerades as a champion of peace and democracy, thus the Mugabe regime has eroded all norms of 21st century civilization.
Faith Moyo
In contrast, Ian Smith’s Rhodesian era turns out to be better than "our" black government.
Most black Zimbabweans would now prefer Ian Smith as leader to Robert Mugabe – though the human instinct of freedom remains high on the agenda. The Mugabe regime has perpetrated serious crimes against its own people – black-on-black.
For what’s the purpose of freedom when freedom kills you, when freedom denies you free speech, when freedom kills your relatives, when freedom starves you, when freedom excludes you on tribal grounds?
I always hear some of my fellow Shona friends saying the crisis in Zimbabwe started in the 1990s when Mr Mugabe started expropriating white farmland including denying Morgan Tsvangirai presidency. No for us in Matabeleland the crisis began right in 1980 when Mr Mugabe became Prime Minister of the newly independent Zimbabwe. Up to 20 000 people were massacred by the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade in the early 1980s.
Two human rights organisations, the Legal Resources Foundation and the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) Zimbabwe however, produced a report entitled Breaking the Silence, Building True Peace in 1997, detailing human rights abuses during the Gukurahundi era. Yet, you still find some people saying “Mugabe was fine up until the 1990s”. This explains how Mr Mugabe has successfully divided our beloved country.
The hope is now based on amplified calls for Gukurahundi justice, thus compensation and reparations. A Bulawayo-based pressure group, Ibhetshu LikaZulu has warned that they intend to launch a High Court bid to force Mr Mugabe to release two reports containing findings of official inquiries into the Matabeleland disturbances in the 1980s.
Ibhetshu LikaZulu has already engaged human rights lawyers, Abammeli BamaLungelo Abantu Network, to force Mugabe to release the Dumbutshena Commission and Chihambakwe Committee reports, which have never been made public although they were presented to him.
The group argues that publicising the documents was necessary to achieve national healing and reconciliation.
Faith Moyo is an MDC-UK chair-lady in the women league, Derby Branch. She can be contacted on fifindiweni@yahoo.com.
Comments
Soon the Chinese will be the only investors in Africa and the only work will be in Chinese mines and on large and efficient Chinese farms (subsistence farming is not a good way to provide for food security). Of course they will also need garrisons to protect their investments. Good luck Africa.
Isu takaburitswa mu Rhodesia hatidzokeri sure totarisa kumberi Zimbabwe nyika yatakapiwa ne Nyasha chaidzo. ticharamba tichaishandira zvichanaaka chete
zvakaitika pa chimoiyo unozviziva here?????the kind of massacre. please do research in your local library..they celebrated vachiti 'they (the blacks) fell like flies'. my family exhiled into Zambia ne nyaya yerhudhizha brutality.The rhodesian government did not economically empower ma blacks.very few could afford kutiza munyika and resettle somewhere else. It did not allow black people education.
my brother I urge you to go and do your research before you say such things in public.
My solution: let be united, support each other from your next door neighbor to musicians ndebele, shona to our very own leaders. let us be educated and use it for the benefit of our nation our heriitage. let us fight corrupt thinking. let us celebrate the archievements of fellow zimbabweans. Be proud of your nation, and do something towards building your nation. OUR LEADERS WILL FOLLOW SUIT knowing that they are not leading 13 million blind mice but people who are determined.haikona kungosvora.ladies and gentlemen i leave you this question to ponder on:
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MAKE YOUR ZIMBABWE A BETTER COUNTRY?
may i point out that this is the problem ye older generation. colonialism has left you thinking the white man is superior. we do not think likewise.we are hungry and desperate to see our own succeed.God created us equal and equal we are. ndiri kuita PHD and i swear i will use it to uplift my country under the black rule.mentality yedu yekutarisirana pasi isnot only showing its ugly head in the government but in our society. pasi nemafungiro amai ava. it leaves loophole for the enermy to attack.
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You just mentioned yourself as a politician ,but I think you need a lot of research and understanding the field you are to enter.If you see national politics in the eyes of the region you are bound to fail.Gukurahundi was never a Shona thing ,some of the Shonas lost their lives because they were labeled ,same as the Ndebeles all this was wrong and ugh has to be properly investigated.
Little dogs bark but real ones just bite.revise your history and stop bashing whats there now, bring constructive critism with your comments e.g how we can get up.
Zimbabwe is like a warrior licking his own wounds after a battle, but without surgery they will still take his life!!!!
African leaders should be queuing at Botswana’s doors asking for an audience. Then we will truly see the African Renaissance.
i dont remember miliions of black and white refugees seeking assylum from horrendis violent misery all over the world when the country was rhodesia but that is how it is under mugabe.
It seems that not only was rhodesia much better it was far better for all and quite frankly i dont know what you are doing on this site, as this is a zone where political rufugees can expose the evils of the degenerating country zimbabwe .
you sadly seem to be the biggest racist,Takanga tisina simba the reason for non votes in rhodesia was not based on race but education and you have seen what happens to small countries that have no experience in politics they have no hope, but rhodesia had implimenedt education for a which was aposed by tribal elders, sadly this wonder was never alowed to reach maturity thanks to brain washed idiots like mugabe
This article has now been published in over a dozen white supremecist websites. Racists are using your arguments to prove black genetic inferiority -- all thanks to you.
If you want to criticize Mugabe, do it constructively, not play into the hands of racists. If you want to defect from the black race go head, but know you will be welcomed into the caucasian race as a slave.
...and what about PURE WHITE RUN STATES THAT ARE NOW FAILING? GREECE, PORTUGAL, IRELAND, ARGENTINA....infact the entire euro block is destined for collapse within the next decade.
Oh, and FYI, here is a list of succesfull BLACK RUN STATES - NAMIBIA, TRINIDAD, BARBADOS, ANTIGUA, CAPE VERDE......and more will join if we start loving ourselves.
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