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Zimbabwe
coalition government sets wrong precedence in Africa
Alex
Bell, SW Radio Africa
August 06, 2008
http://www.swradioafrica.com/news060808/zimpolitic060808.htm
The Africa Liberal Network
has slammed the proposed resolution that a dialogue be established
between Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai - saying it sets a wrong
precedence in Africa - this statement came as the talks between
the ZANU-PF and MDC negotiating members continued past their deadline
in South Africa.
The Network is made up
of 17 parties from 15 African countries, and is an associated organisation
of Liberal International, the political family to which Liberal
Democratic parties belong.
The newly elected president
of the Network, Dr Mamadou Lamine Ba, who is also an advisor to
the Senegalese President, said on Monday that it was unacceptable
for parties that won elections through manipulation or rigging to
be rewarded with equal status to those parties that lost unjustly
- resulting in forced coalition governments.
Dr Lamine Ba said: "Coalition
governments could only be allowed when the parties involved have
respect for freedom of expression, not in a situation like Zimbabwe
where one party has been involved in massive killing, leading to
the continued suffering of the people of Zimbabwe." He also
called on the global community to do everything in it's power to
end the crisis in Zimbabwe in order to stop the ongoing suffering
there, and said a government of national unity must only be agreed
within the framework of transparent and democratic elections.
At the same time the
Network's former president, Aly Toure from Cote D'Voure in Liberia,
said it was unacceptable to allow despotic leaders to remain in
power, and called on the international community to bring such dictators
to justice. He likened Mugabe to Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir
who was accused by the prosecutor of the International Criminal
Court in July of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes
in Darfur. Toure said: "I totally agree with the resolution
to bring leaders like Robert Mugabe and Omar al-Bashir to the Court
of Justice to answer to the atrocities perpetrated by their regimes,"
and added this was the only way such leaders could be made accountable
for their actions.
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