The Zanu PF thugs are certainly beginning to feel the growing pressure
for meaningful political change; they are running around in panic and
confusion!
“The EU said that it urges the Zimbabwean authorities to immediately and
unconditionally release all political prisoners,” argued Brightface Matema, a
Zanu PF apologist, in Bulawayo 24.
“Who said they are political prisoners? I am sure this bloc needs to be
reminded that these prisoners were violent demonstrators who annihilated
property of fellow citizens. In short they were in conflict with the law and
deserved to be incarcerated.”
Matema, ever since last July’s rigged elections Mnangagwa and his
illegitimate regime have been trying to impose themselves on a nation by using
brute force to cow the nation into subservient submission. The regime has used
the protest as cover to descend on the people like a tonne of bricks. This is a
tried and tested Zanu PF modus operandi the party has used repeatedly in the
last 38 years, notably during the Gukurahundi massacre in which Zanu PF sort to
crash PF Zapu under the disguise of hunting dissidents. There were
only a few hundred dissidents and yet the regime murdered over 20 000 innocent
civilians because Mugabe suspected them of being PF Zapu supporters.
The excessive force by the state security on the 1st August 2018, two
days after the rigged 30 July 2018 elections was to send a clear message Zanu
PF would not tolerate anyone protesting yet another rigged elections.
The excessive force by the state security during the two weeks starting
14 January 2019 was to send a double message:
a) The regime will not tolerate anyone protesting the
country’s worsening economic situation. The regime is determined to stay in
power regardless of the evidence it has no clue how to revive the country’s
comatose economy.
We can be certain there will be
more stay-aways and street protest as the economic situation gets worse and
worse because human beings will never suffer and die quietly like sheep in a
slaughter house regardless the crashing tonnes of bricks dropped at them.
b) Mnangagwa and his cronies are aware that all they
attempts to conceal the evidence of their vote buying and vote rigging schemes
have all come to naught. The whole world knows that Zanu PF rigged last July’s
elections, especially the would-be investors and lenders whose cash injection
is the kick-start the country needs to revive the comatose economy.
As long as the
country remains a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs there is
no hope of any meaningful economic recovery. Zanu PF thugs know that and, more
significant. they know their political opponents and critics know it too. The
violence crack down last month was aimed at the opposition leaders and the
critics, many of whom were pick up from their homes in the dead of the night
and, no doubt, many are now being falsely accuse of the rioting and looting. Of
course, they are political prisoners.
Zanu PF has rigged
elections and used brute force to maintain it iron grip on power in the face of
growing opposition by the people complaining against the economic hardships and
political oppression. The regime has denied the people the opportunity for
peaceful and democratic change but only to foster the violent change now
gripping the nation!
“One wonders when the EU calls for the restoration of the rule of law in
Zimbabwe while at the same time calling for the release of violent protestors
is abiding with the tenets of rule of law. They purport to be champions of rule
of law when they display double standards by calling for the unconditional
release of those arrested while violating the same law,” continue Matema.
Was Zanu PF “abiding with the tenets” of free, fair and credible
elections when the regime failed to produce something as basic and fundamental
as a verified voters’ roll?
All this talk that Zimbabwe needs a political dialogue is all nonsense
and a waste of time. What is there to talk about with Mnangagwa! Zanu PF rigged
last July’s elections, the regime does not have the democratic mandate to rule,
it is illegitimate and it must step down. Period!
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