Mugabe launches Robert Mugabe academy
Harare, Zimbabwe
26 October 2007 07:51
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has launched an intelligence
academy named after him, saying it would produce officers able to counter
growing threats from Western powers, state media reported on Friday.
Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in
1980, is fighting isolation from the West, which accuses him of human rights
abuses and rigging elections and economic mismanagement.
The combative 83-year-old veteran leader says he is being punished
for seizing white-owned farms for landless black Zimbabweans to redress
colonial imbalances, a programme critics say has plunged the economy into
crisis.
"With the current unjustified demonisation of Zimbabwe by Western
powers, the role of intelligence in shaping foreign, security and economic
policies become even more critical," the Herald newspaper quoted the president
as saying at the launch of the Robert Mugabe National School of Intelligence
near Harare.
Critics say Mugabe has increasingly relied on security forces to
keep opponents in check in the face of growing anger over the unravelling
economy, but he denies the charge.
The intelligence academy is also expected to train members of the
army, police and operatives from other Southern African countries.
Mugabe said Britain and the United States continued to try to
destabilise Zimbabwe by working with "non-state actors" aimed at unseating his
government.
"The important role of defending our country cannot be left to
mediocre officers incapable of comprehending and analytically evaluating the
operational environment to ensure that the sovereignty of our state is not only
preserved, but enhanced," Mugabe said. - Reuters
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