A Time For Zimbabweans To Face The Truth or Forever Suffer (July 23, 2003)

The time has come – the time to seek the truth and the time to tell the truth. It is time that the people of Zimbabwe began asking themselves; what really went wrong and when did it all go wrong about the Mugabe regime (once internationally known and recognized as the ‘Zimbabwean government’)? The people of Zimbabwe have to begin to ask themselves these questions; what have I benefited from the rule of this regime? And why?

The serious answers to these questions are not without significance for consideration by any true and democratic Zimbabweans who have no secret agendas of being untrue to themselves. LOVE, JUSTICE and the TRUTH –– which the ZANU PF. regime is apparently not so much in favor of –– are the key elements to end this men-made misery and destruction of a nation that was once the glory of Africa “the bread basket of the African sub-continent.” If Zimbabweans today could unite against these evidently evil plans and misdeeds of the illegitimate Mugabe regime which have promoted hatred through the DIVIDE, DEPRIVE and then RULE system, then the answer to these man-made problems of premeditated Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing and Torture campaign by these cowards of no conscience would not be difficult to find. People would now be fighting for a solution towards stopping these criminals from openly poisoning the nation and subjecting it to a slow and painful death. The international community and Zimbabweans at large have enough information and facts about the criminal activities of this regime, and mere condolences and other sympathy gestures should no longer be accepted as the comforting solution to solving the continuing atrocities by this illegal Mugabe regime. What remains to be seen now is; can the people of Zimbabwe and the International Community continue to treat these criminals, who are continuing to perpetrate their crimes against humanity, as if they were a democratic institution with the right of audience in civilized society (the largest grouping of nations in the whole world, apart from the United Nations, has passed a damning indictment against the illegitimate Mugabe regime –– the Commonwealth observer mission’s report and the Commonwealth’s Troika’s Decisions refer).

Just as any other common criminal (which is what the illegitimate Mugabe regime is) would be treated in any just and democratic country –– before the courts and society, under the laws and conventions protecting innocent civilians?

Opposition parties should no longer dignify these men of such undemocratic and inhuman acts –– by standing for elections against them and, therefore, legitimizing them –– since they are no longer the legal government to the Zimbabwe of today. A legal way of saving the country from the demise of an illegitimate ruling Administration should be sought by seeking non-violent justice against these ZANU PF. Criminals at an internationally recognized Tribunal, and not by competing to remove them through the respectable way of a ballot box, which is meant only for politicians and people who recognize democratic decisions. The people of Zimbabwe should be careful not to try and stand on both sides of the river. A decision has to be made by the people of Zimbabwe, on whether or not the people want to continue trying to respect diplomacy and the ‘beating about the bush’ strategies (in dealing with the long time criminals who have clearly shown no signs of rehabilitation or even sympathy to their victims) which have never been used and proven fruitful when dealing with criminals at any level, or the people can begin to face reality and oppose the Mugabe aim of creating hatred across racial and tribal lines and then ruling. This, the people can do through:

• Loving one another
• Respecting and valuing all tribes, races and other communities of Zimbabwe without prejudice (Mugabe’s commitment in terms of the Lancaster House Treaty, which has since been violated by the Mugabe regime (page 10 of 40 of the Lancaster House Treaty with respect to tribal issues refers –– www.zwnews.com).
• The communities or tribes and races of Zimbabwe that have benefited directly or indirectly from the rule of the Mugabe regime –– either because of tribal belonging or racial belonging –– should not only be in a position to sympathize with the victims of such division and deprivation, but also to publicly acknowledge their structurally imposed superiority status and seek ways of helping compensate, and/or seek justice for the victims of such atrocities.
• The victimized communities of Zimbabwe have to rid themselves of the physical and psychological fear that has been and continues to be inflicted upon them by this very systematic and ruthless regime, and begin to speak out and demand justice for themselves (a cause which even the indirect beneficiaries of the regime can support by refusing to be lied to and used by an evil Administration that seeks to undermine and reduce the love and respect of Zimbabweans in general, to an across the nation hatred and atrocities based on tribal and racial lines).
• Zimbabweans should not allow unscrupulous politicians of selfish means and ends to use them as VOTING ELEMENTS –– they can have a say too, after all these biased politicians of destructive deeds promised under oath, not to have an army, police, militia or “war vets” that will rape, kill, and torture people who try to exercise their rights of freedom and democracy –– and yet history has it that they never even kept their promises to the Zimbabwean masses, for even a day after the people supposedly voted them into power in 1980.

Zimbabweans must know that in TRUTH AND LOVE there is JUSTICE and in HATRED, FEAR and DIVISION there is no JUSTICE; and, therefore, more fear and atrocities will continue to haunt us, as inflicted upon us by these perpetrators of the illegitimate evil Mugabe regime. Now is the time to STOP the criminals.

DEMAND INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE FOR WHAT IS CLEARLY INTERNATIONAL TREATY VIOLATIONS!

The United States of America and the European Union might help us in this just cause if we do not file a consistent and legitimate campaign against such apparent human and people’s rights violations.

“The challenge is at hand, and with it our destiny. Are we ready and willing to face it?”.

By: Thabo Siziba