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Zimbabwe pressures the Troika to take a tough stance
Restoration of Human Rights (ROHR)
October 30, 2009
A group of ROHR
Zimbabwe radical human rights activists yesterday around 1000 hours
convened in the city centre to send a clear message to the Southern
African Development Committee (SADC) Troika to take up a hard stance
on the political parties, especially ZANU Pf and its leader Robert
Mugabe, to own up to their agreements under the Global
Political Agreement. Singing protesters marched from Cameroon
Street into Jason Moyo Avenue towards the Harare International Conference
Centre where the SADC regional special committee on security and
politics was holding talks to resolve the impasse on the slow implementation
of the GPA.
ROHR Zimbabwe
is calling on the SADC leaders to desist from supporting ZANU Pf
and Mugabe's stranglehold on power at the expense of the Zimbabwean
people. The coalition government is a circumvent to the aspirations
of people who voted on March 29 to elect a leader of their choice
to head government. SADC leaders therefore stand to be reminded
that it is the people of Zimbabwe who should benefit from the Troika's
interventions and not to legitimize narrow partisan political agendas
that lack the mandate of the people.
In carrying
out its fact finding mission the SADC Troika should take note of
the following fundamental issues of concern to redirect the nation
towards the path to a democratic reforms:
1) The uniformed
forces should execute their duties professionally without discriminating
on the grounds of political affiliation. Investigations should be
made on the fresh reports on the abduction of MDC supporters by
armed police officials.
2) Draconian
media legislature POSA
and AIPPA
should be repealed as a matter of urgency as a free and independent
media is key for the establishment of a democratic society. The
state broadcaster should desist from funning hate speech and lies
aimed at prejudicing the public against civil society organizations
and other political parties apart from ZANU PF.
3) The office of the
attorney general should immediately cease intimidation campaigns
that are targeted at harassing human rights defenders and political
activist.
4) ZANU PF should
demobilize and disarm the militia, the proxies of violence that
are still active in the rural areas since the acrimonious epoch
of political terror that claimed more than 180 lives and displaced
thousands in March -June 2008.
5) Known perpetrators
of violence must face the law regardless of political affiliation
and rank in society.
SADC the guarantor to
the GPA last month disappointed the expectations of many Zimbabweans
who had hoped to see the regional body taking a tough stance against
President Mugabe and ZANU Pf at the Kinshasa DRC summit.
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