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Statement by MDC Bulawayo Province Youth Assembly
Movement
for Democratic Change
May 07, 2010
The MDC Bulawayo Province
Youth assembly today finally handed in their petition to the Minister
of Justice, the Attorney General and the Organ on National Healing
and Reconciliation after failing twice to hold a peaceful procession
in the city under unclear terms by the police. The demonstration
and petition are an expression of the anger and frustration against
State sponsored violence and the inaction by the office of the Attorney
General in prosecuting known ZANU PF thugs who committed gross human
rights abuses between 29 March and June 27 and still continue to
unleash more terror on people's choices.
We are concerned
by the grave silence by the AGs office on known perpetrators of
violence who continue to walk scott free and roam our streets and
yet they are the ones that claimed the lives of our brothers Mthokozisi
Ncube, Tonderai Ndira, Better Chokururama, Godfrey Kauzani and many
others. This is evident that the people of Zimbabwe are not protected
by the law and shows that the police need to be reformed. Two years
into the GPA,
the youths are still not employed, education remains inaccessible,
air waves remain arrested in monopoly, state agents remain unreformed,
a people
driven constitution is stalling and perpetrators of violence
are roaming the streets even when the MDC furnished the AG's
office with a detailed dossier of the murderers.
Article 6 of the GPA
clearly says that all parties in the negotiated government should
fully commit to a people driven constitution. Article 18.5 (c) of
the of the GPA is very clear on what this transitional authority
must do in respect of the violence that visited this country before
and after the harmonized plebiscite of 2008. For the avoidance of
doubt, this article calls on all political parties in this transitional
authority to "apply the laws of this country fully and impartially
in bringing all perpetrators of politically motivated violence to
book".
We state here and now
that we want the GPA talks to come to an end and to have all arson
bombers, rapists, murderers and kidnappers brought to book so that
a democratic Zimbabwe can be built.
We are further concerned
by the salient action on Gukurahundi in this region that claimed
20 000 of our people and the arrest of fellow brothers who talk
about it and have documented it. We want to remind the authorities
that time will not let us forget but only justice is what we are
waiting for. The state should take full responsibility in the likely
event that people turn against each other to correct the effects
of the many 'moments of madness' that are bent in the
nation as Mugabe clings to power against the peoples choice.
We restate that Robert
Mugabe lost the last elections to MDC president Morgan Richard Tsvangirai
and every one knows it. We are bothered by the inactive state of
the Organ on National Healing and Reconciliation, a body that too
is clearly provided for under Article VII(c) of the same GPA. This
organ has failed to address political tensions caused by years of
state-sponsored conflict because it does not have clear mandate
and yet it is a precondition to the holding of free and fair elections
in the country.
We are further disturbed
by the abuse of our brothers and sisters by using them for political
mileage and disturbances in exchange for alcohol and marijuana.
We want jobs, food and security for all youths in Zimbabwe! As the
MDC Youth in Bulawayo we believe in a new Zimbabwe where a conducive
political environment exists so that the people can choose and reject
leaders freely. We aspire for true patriotism, real democracy and
evident self determination. We believe in real change and we shall
deliver it to the people of Zimbabwe through our leadership!
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