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Index of articles on enforced disappearances in Zimbabwe
Release
pro-democracy activists now
Centre for Community Development in Zimbabwe
(CCDZ)
February 24, 2009
We reiterate
our calls that the MDC Treasurer-General and Deputy Minister of
Agriculture-designate Roy Bennet must be released unconditionally.We
call upon the MDC leader and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to
demand Bennet's immediate release if we are to take his participation
in the inclusive government seriously.
The incaceration of Bennet
and other pro-democracy activists who are being held illegally in
Zimbabwe's prisons flies in the face of the so-called new political
dispensation.Any suggestions of a new era or a new chapter in Zimbabwe's
body politic are laughable because the people of Zimbabwe continue
to suffer the same hardships that they have endured under President
Mugabe's regime.
The so-called inclusive
government must take bold decisions and set free activists who are
being attacked because they do not agree with the political establishment.From
a civil society perspective, we shall continue to agitate for the
following:
1. Reform of
National Institutions & Creation of New Ones To Deepen and Entrech
Democracy in Zimbabwe. These institutions include, but are not limited
to: the Zimbabwe National Army, Zimbabwe Republic Police, Zimbabwe
Electoral Commission, Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings, the Registrar-General's
Office, the Attorney-General, the Central Intelligence Organization,
the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe,the Grain Marketing Board, the Public
Service Commission, Zimpapers, Anti-Corruption Commission, Judicial
Services Commission, Media & Information Commission.
2. A new people-driven
constitution that allows broad participation of the Zimbabwean citizens.
3. Lustration/Removal
of Abusive and Corrupt officials from public service.
4. Prosecution
of those who have and continue to commit human rights abuses.
5. Liberalization
of the airwaves and immediate reinstatement of all newspapers and
the stations shut down by the Mugabe regime.
We shall not agree to
piecemeal reforms that will not address the democratic deficit in
Zimbabwe particularly the concerns raised above.
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