Last week President Mugabe threatened UN Secretary General that Africa
will walk out en mass if the AU’s demands for two permanent seats on the UN
Security Council complete with veto powers are not met.
“Mr Ban Ki Moon, just tell them (West) for the last time that there
should be real equality in the Security Council. We cannot just come to the
General Assembly to make empty and hollow speeches and go back home and nobody
takes care of all the concerns we have expressed. No!” dictated President
Mugabe.
The most of world’s leading media gave President Mugabe’s speech fair
coverage his “empty and hollow speeches”, his words not mine, have always
provided a comical moment for many listeners. If at all Secretary General, Ban
Ki Moon had at all intended to even mention President Mugabe demand in his
report, events on the Korea peninsular a few days later must have forced him to
delete any reference to the demand.
North Korean has just launch a spacecraft with 12 000 km reach carry a
pay load of 800kg against UN Security Council resolution banning such
activities. The same craft can be used to deliver a nuclear or hydrogen bomb to
Japan and South Korea beyond to main land USA.
A last month ago North Korea tested its hydrogen bomb, again, in complete
defiance of the UN resolution.
Secretary Ban Ki Moon rushed back to New York to attend an emergency UN
Security Council meeting on Sunday to discuss the latest developments.
Secretary Moon is a South Korean national and he is only too familiar with the
never ending antics of North Korea, the neighbour from hell, ever since the
split of Korea in 1945.
The presence of China, North Korea’s friend and backer, on the UN
Security Council, one of the five permanent members with a veto, has made it
impossible for the world body to stop North Korea doing as she damn well
pleased.
North Korea does not have many other friends around the world but it
would be correct to say it counts Zimbabwe as one of its friends. Many of
Mugabe’s freedom fighters received their military training in North Korea the
most well know unit being the Fifth Brigade, Gukurahundi, which was responsible
for most of the serious human rights violations and murders against mostly Joshua
Nkomo’s PF Zapu supporters. The crashing of PF Zapu cleared the way for Mugabe
to launch his de facto one-man dictatorship, a copy-cat of North Korea.
The day countries like Zimbabwe are granted a permanent seat and veto in the UN Security Council is the day the world body will become as useless as the AU itself. The UN is weak and feeble as it is the few countries with the veto have abused it to serve selfish national interests; grant the same power to those whose selfish interests are even worse than personal as they are totally misplaced egotistic interests.
ReplyDeleteWhat President Mugabe has shown through out his political life, but most graphically during the 2008 elections, is that he does not care about justice, freedom, human rights even human life. If fighting against injustice and freedom furthers his own image he wants to be right up there in your face and personal. If upholding the law is a threat to his hold on power he will disregard the law and even take human lives without thinking twice about it.
ReplyDeleteZimbabwe has become such a lawless and extremely corrupt nation because when power is exercised by one with such a gangster mentality and reputation the whole system of government becomes so rotten to the core that those living by the law become the new "criminals". Giving President Mugabe the chairmanship of the AU straight after the AU itself had forced him to go into the GNU because he disregarded every electoral rule in 2008, for example, was a serious shortcoming on the AU itself. How could he reprimand anyone else for rigging elections when he is the worst offender ever.
President Mugabe has not implemented any of the reforms and so when it comes to rigging elections he not repented in anyway. He will rig the next elections with any sense of guilty or shame.
That President Mugabe should be the one championing the call for Africa to be granted permanent seats in the UN Security Council is just like him; he is riding on the wave of a minor imperfection in the UN not because he wants a perfect UN but as an excuse for him to get in and corrupt it even more.
President Mugabe has violated all of the values and principles the UN stands for; he should have been kicked out of the UN a long time ago. How then can someone like that be considered worthy of veto; he not only thinks he is worthy of being given the veto, he is demanding it as his entitlement!
The African leaders in the AU have been as naive and gullible as 10 year old. The idiots elected President Mugabe chairman of the AU just weeks after the tyrant sacked his VP and half his cabinet accusing them of plotting to assassinate him and yet failed to arrest even one of the plotters. Most if not all these leaders have an ambassador in Zimbabwe, surely their representative must have told them Mugabe made up the story to stop Mujuru being elected at the party's congress.
DeletePresident Mugabe is megalomania and how could the AU then elected such a tyrant to chair the continental body if they were not fools!
@ Mudhara
ReplyDeleteThe only one thing President Mugabe cares about and ever dreams of is absolute power. He has been lucky to be surrounded by some of the most naive and gullible people on earth in Zanu PF, in the opposition, at national level and at continental level. At international level many have tolerated him as long as he saved their purpose. There is no doubt that the Chinese, for example, have profited greatly from their close relationship with Mugabe than Zimbabwe has.
Mugabe will never get a permanent seat in the UN Security Council even if he was to live for a 1 000 years. Africa can walk out of the UN en mass; that will not change anything. If he was ever to be granted his wish it will only be because the West will be walking out en mass!
President Mugabe is nothing other than the Devil demanding that he and not St Peter should be trusted with the key to the Pearl Gates of Heaven because Peter denied knowing Jesus three times before the cock crowed. Give the Devil the key and before sunset heaven will be hell!
@ Murambatsvina
ReplyDeleteMDC had five years to implement the democratic reforms and they failed to implement even one. Just how long did they need to implement even one reform?
Zanu PF are stubborn, that is true, but that was not the reason MDC failed to get even one reform implemented. MDC failed to get even one reform implemented because they are corrupt and in-competent, this is a true historic fact and you can deny it all you want but that will not charge any-thing. The true historic facts are even more stubborn than Zanu PF whom you fear so much.
Zanu PF is imploding, President Mugabe is not fooling anyone by saying he does not want factionalism when he is the one aiding and abetting G40 faction which did not exist until he created it in 2014 to replace the Mujuru faction he booted out!
ReplyDeleteMnangagwa will be very naive if he ever thought President Mugabe wanted peace and unity in the party. All President Mugabe has ever care about and dreamt of is absolute power and he has stopped at nothing to get it!
By igniting the dog-eat-dog fighting in Zanu PF by his unwarranted booting out of Mujuru President Mugabe has started a fight that he cannot stop. And not the fire he started is going to consume him too!