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Jestina
Mukoko ruling a triumph of justice over evil
Youth Agenda Trust
September 30, 2009
The Youth Agenda
Trust has received with great jubilation the Supreme Court ruling
to free human rights activist and director of the Zimbabwe
Peace Project Jestina Mukoko from the trumped up charges of
banditry that were being laid against her. It has always been our
belief and conviction that the charges on Jestina and her other
co accused MDC activists were unfounded but devilish machinations
that were meant to derail the people's struggle for democracy
and the rule of law. The ruling bears a clear testimony to the nocturnal
operations of the central intelligence and the Zimbabwe Republic
Police and it is in light of this same ruling that we call for the
immediate arrest and trial of the state operatives, who abducted,
tortured, illegally detained and traumatised the veteran human rights
activist and her co accused. The ruling will remain inconclusive
if these dangerous criminals are left to roam free and worse still
occupy senior and responsible positions within the civil service
To us the high profile
case which has been a litmus test for the inclusive government on
its commitment to the return to rule of law and independence of
the Judiciary.. We therefore call upon the progressive elements
of the inclusive government and the Prime Minister in particular
to institute a full inquiry into these gross violations of human
rights and ensure that justice is delivered. To our fellow comrade
Jestina the Youth Agenda Trust joins you in this landmark and historic
ruling and we hope you will be inspired by one of South Africa's
fighters against the apartheid regime, Ahmed Khatrada's words
on his release from Robben Island;
"While we will
not forget the brutality of apartheid, we will not want Robben Island
to be a monument of our hardship and suffering. We would want it
to be a triumph of the human spirit against the forces of evil,
a triumph of wisdom and largeness of spirit against small minds
and pettiness, a triumph of courage and determination over human
frailty and weakness; a triumph of the new South Africa over the
old."
We wish Robert Mugabe's
emissaries in the AG office such as Chris Mutangadura, deputy Attorney
General, Prince Machaya and Johannes Tomana a quick recovery from
the trauma arising from the victory of justice over evil!
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