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Failure
by politicians to reach agreement tragic
Zimbabwe Human
Rights Association (ZimRights)
November 12,
2008
Failure, once
again, by the politicians to reach an amicable agreement on the
way forward with regards to the issue of setting up an all-inclusive
government is tragic and unfortunate. It is tragic in the sense
that as they continue to haggle and buy time for their political
survival the economic, social and political crises continue to deepen
with more and more people being driven into destitution.
Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) is concerned that
while people are dying of hunger and other avoidable ailments such
as cholera, the parties to the power-sharing agreement continue
to display a serious lack of sincerity in their commitment to the
September 15 agreement.
As if that is not enough, political violence and police brutality
have continued unabated especially against members of civil society
who have dared to peacefully express their indignation at the failure
by the politicians to value the lives of Zimbabweans through ensuring
a speedy resolution to the stalemate. The fact that humanitarian
organisations continue to face hurdles in delivering aid to the
needy is also one issue that astounds us.
It is disconcerting that
the ruling Zanu PF party appears bent on holding on to power at
the expense of the suffering and dying people of Zimbabwe. The party,
through its failure to compromise, grabbing all key ministries,
has proved to be a stumbling block in the bid by the Southern African
Development Community (SADC) to broker a deal that could deliver
the citizens of this country from the suffering that they have been
forced to endure for the past decade. ZimRights is disappointed
that on its part, SADC has regrettably failed to censure Zanu PF
in spite of the latter's open transgressions and breaches
against the power-sharing agreement. SADC seems to be failing to
acknowledge that the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) won
the 29 March 2008 elections and deserves to be treated at least
as a significant partner with a right to control an equal number
of key ministries in the envisaged power sharing government. Zanu
PF cannot continue to claim to have the upper hand on the basis
of the 27 June elections whose results were unanimously rejected
locally, regionally and internationally.
Zimbabwe is slowly dying,
literally, crying for an urgent resolution to its problems. ZimRights
therefore calls upon SADC, the African union and international community
to urgently come to the aid of the Zimbabwean people through ensuring
that the politicians here act with more sincerity and empathy for
the suffering population. If the power-sharing agreement cannot
work then it is time the politicians step aside and allow a transitional
authority to take over and prepare the country for a fresh democratic,
free and fair election supervised by the United Nations.
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