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From: chirunga mutizwa
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: BRITAIN LEADS EU BOYCOTT THREAT Any Zimbabwean who faults comrade Robert Mubage for having rectified an arrogant and racist policy of the British government of wrongfully seizing land from indigenous people and giving it to their white settlers must, himself, be condemned in the strongest sense of the word. Quite naturally, these same European countries and their African patsies are so strongly against Mr. Mugabe because he is the only African leader who had the guts to stand up for his people and do the right thing regardless of the expected outcries of the racist supporters of the continuation of the greed and open disregard of natural law that had been allowed to go on in Zimbabwe for far too long. If these leaders and nations really want to see peace and stability in Zimbabwe, then they should stop forthwith, all their ill-conceived efforts at destabilizing Zimbabwe and causing the people all the suffering they are going through right now! The people of Zimbabwe are no fools. They are pretty aware of what's going on...which is why they are not heeding the disastrous calls of these misguided so-called leaders who are so keen to bring down Mugabe at all costs. And now we hear of Tsvangirai wanting to throw Zimbabwe into a bloodbath which would further cause more suffering of his own people! What a shame coming from someone who calls himself a leader of the Zimbabwean people. How much does he really love the counrtry or the people? Or is he so bent on grabbing power at any cost? If he spills, or causes to be spilled, all that blood, then who will be left for him to lead or rule? If he were in Mugabe's shoes, would he be willing to hand down the power he is so tenaciously and hungrily after? Have the people of Zimbabwe not suffered enough from the spill-overs of the Apartheid South African engineered HIV/AIDS pandemic? Surely, you would think that a true leader of the people would first want to see that the present situation is well taken care of before wanting to further exacerbate the situation by plunging the nation into another catastrophy caused by economic woes! Europe should leave the affairs of Africa in the hands of the Africans. If they want to help us, then they should go ahead and do so out of genuine humanitarian reasons and not have too many strings attached to the aid as they always do! We do not tell them how to run their own countries and they should do the same with Africa. We have long rejected their oppressive rule. They should have learned to leave us alone, by now. The sooner they learn that we no longer wish to be their puppets, the better it will be for all concerned. As for the Tsvangirai's of Africa, well, we have always had these kinds of myopic people who are so greedy for power they will even sell out their own mothers! They were there even during the days of the Pharaohs. We will continue to have them till Doomsday. I am so happy that the Zimbabwean people are no longer being fooled by these self-professed leaders. We must stand united behind our democratically elected leaders and give Mugabe's land redistribution program a chance to take hold. Zimbabwe will, once again, be the breadbasket of Southern Africa as it was before the destabilization processes of the ousted Europeans and their stooges! M'tizwa. Mulindwa Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Britain leads EU boycott threat over Mugabe By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels The European Union's relations with Africa were heading for a crisis last night after a British-led group of states threatened to boycott the EU-Africa summit in April if Robert Mugabe was allowed to attend. In a rebuke to France, which has been dragging its feet on tough action, Britain, Spain, The Netherlands and Denmark said it was time to stop bending the EU sanctions to accommodate the Mugabe regime. All said that their heads of government would stay away from the Lisbon summit if the EU went ahead with plans to let Mr Mugabe attend. They were tacitly supported by Germany and Sweden. In a day of acrimonious exchanges in Brussels, foreign ministers failed to agree an extension of EU "smart sanctions" against Mr Mugabe and his inner circle, which include an asset freeze, an arms embargo, and a travel ban. Geoffrey Van Orden, a Tory MEP and a leading campaigner for human rights in Zimbabwe, said the squabbling made a mockery of the EU's pretensions to be a serious maker of foreign policy on the world stage. "Once again the EU has sent a message of weakness and ambivalence when a clear message is needed, just as it is doing over Iraq," he said. The sanctions will lapse automatically on Feb 18 unless all 15 EU states vote for a "roll over". So far the travel ban has proved to be almost worthless since Nigeria, Sudan and other states seen to have scant respect for democratic values have rallied behind the Mugabe regime in recent months, insisting that banned envoys from Harare are admitted to EU-related events. They are now refusing to take part in the Lisbon summit unless Mr Mugabe is there, too. But the British-led stand yesterday was a clear sign that much of the EU is losing patience with African states that receive billions of pounds in Union aid but fail to fulfil their side of the bargain by ensuring "good governance" and respect for human rights. Sweden's foreign minister, Anna Lindh, said: "It gives a very strange signal if the EU is having sanctions against Zimbabwe and at the same time is inviting Mugabe, even if it is one country inviting him to a special conference." France, which has been the chief obstruction over the renewal of the sanctions, appeared to have overplayed its hand yesterday by continuing to demand a waiver to allow Mr Mugabe to attend a Franco-African summit in Paris in February in exchange for rolling over the travel ban for another year. Glenys Kinnock, a Labour MEP and the chairman of the European Parliament's Africa, Caribbean and Pacific committee, said the French government had attempted to "blackmail" the rest of the Union, but had underestimated the widespread disgust over the escalating abuses in Zimbabwe, where famine is now an immediate peril. "The French policy thoroughly discredits President Chirac, but at least there was a core of states that spoke up and said they were not going to be held hostage by Mugabe." The French view the Zimbabwe crisis as a post-colonial spat between Harare and London, chiefly over the fate of white farmers. Zimbabwe's main opposition party accused yesterday Mr Mugabe's government of sanctioning the torture of its supporters. Morgan Tsvangirai, the president of the Movement for Democratic Change, demanded an independent judicial investigation into a tide of violence that had led to some 30 political murders last year. The Mulindwas communication group "With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" SPECIAL REPORTS ON AFRICADAILY3'S HOME PAGE: RWANDA: LIBERALISATION IS NEEDED. SIGN REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS PETITION FOR RELEASE OF JOURNALISTS IN PRISON. FAMINE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA BY SAVE THE CHILDREN. Welcome to AFRICADAILY3. Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africadaily3 Command for help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AFRICADAILY3 was founded on October 22th, 2000. Total number of members on January 27th 2003: 4,032. Number of active members: 2,091. Number of bouncing members: 1,941. Webcounter says 57,791 netters visited the list online since 19 months ago. 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