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DPRK delegation not welcome
Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU)
May 13, 2009

The Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) is utterly disgusted by the presence of the Mr Kim Vong Nam, President of the Presidium of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in this country. We wish to castigate and condemn all those who embraced and gave this despot a warm reception.

We throw our support to all the progressive Zimbabweans who are calling for his immediate departure from Zimbabwe.

The government even hosted a five star reception for the dictator at state house yesterday at the expense of the hungry and suffering people of Zimbabwe, who are yet to see the deliverables from the new government.

Lest people forget that, Mr Nam's country was the place where the notorious five brigade troops who massacred close to 20 000 innocent civilians received their training. North Korea is on top on the list of worst human rights violations, restrictive media laws etc.

His presence in Zimbabwe is a direct insult to the people of Matabeleland and the people of Zimbabwe in general. We demand an apology from Mr Nam on behalf of his government for the role his country played in assisting and funding the notorious and heartless Fifth Brigade during the Gukurahundi.

It surely came as a shock to us when some of our colleagues who are now in government, joined their ZANU PF counterparts to welcome the dictator at the airport on Monday.We appreciate that our country is in dire need of funds and resources but this should not be an excuse to accommodate, wine and dine with well known dictators, human rights violators, and vampires who thrive on human blood simply because we need aid from foregn countries.
We are also disappointed that another exiled Ethiopian dicator Haile Mengistu is still residing in this country under the benevolence of Mugabe when he is a man who is wanted to answer to crimes against humanity in his coutry. In February this year the MDC-T said that the issue of Mengistu would be high on the agenda of the inclusive government. Just to remind the nation of what the MDC spokesperson Mr Nelson Chamisa said of Mengistu,'' Zimbabwe should not be a safe haven or resting place for serial human rights violators like Mr Mengistu, We can't shelter purveyors of injustice," he said. We demand that the issue of Mengistu should be dealt with once and for all by the three principals.

We wish to categorically state that dictators like Nam,Mengistu and Mugabe should be treated as pariahs because of their appalling record of human rights abuses.

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