Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra)
25 June 2008
Members of Parliament are calling for military intervention from the United Nations as a solution to the Zimbabwean crisis. The parliamentarians say military options should sometimes be employed to save lives and stop such mess.
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"There is no civil strife in Zimbabwe." What planet are you living on mate?
How can people say there is no strife in motherland Zimbabwe when precious African blood is being calously shed in the name of political power and selfish interest? Please people wake up this is life being wasted and degraded to almost being considered cheaper than oil, farms, political power, individual domination over fellow human beings and the arrogance that certain classes of people have no right to ascent to political power becaused they have never slaughtered a 'pig'in there lifetime.
sudan...please do us a favour....look outside your window and tell us what color the sky is on your planet...it cant be blue like it is down here on earth!
I would volunteer my life to the aid of the AU in bringing stability to Zimbabwe. I am a black man in America and I am sick of tired of tyrants and those cowards who allow this to continue. No white American would allow the EU to suffer such autrocities so why should we blacks in America allow this to Africa? Enuff is enuff!!! Please AU create in your frame work a program that allows us sold into the Transatlantic Slavery to repatriot and defend our mother land. This we ask of you, NOW!
we shall be waiting... Defending our sovereignity and birthright.Zimbabwe my beginning Zimbabwe my end.
I cannot understand how u can say you shall be waiting..."Defending our sovereignty and birthright"????????/What is Zimbabwe to you if I may ask? Is it the land, the resources or the very people that live on that land. What are you defending if you are continously killing your own people? What are you defending if you are continously allowing your own people to starve. What are you defending if u r taking away their basic right to express themselves openly. As a Zimbabwean myself, it hurts me to the core to see what has happened to the once beautiful country I love. Leadership is not just a title. Leadership is respecting the views of your people. Leadership is allowing your people to express themselves openly without fear of abuse or in worse cases death. Mugabe may win that election on Friday but in my eyes he lost that title of a leader a long time ago. He has lost the respect of his people, the continent of Africa and the World. It is sad to see what was once a GREAT man reduced to nothing more than a power hungry, ruthless, heartless monster.
I think many African leaders and ruling elites do not want meaningful action taken against Robert Mugabe's brutal and corrupt regime, because they know that they themselves are guilty of inexcusable corruption and impoverishing the people living under their rule, and fear the world taking similar actions against them.
Africa can be prosperous, but the people must rise up and demand individual liberty, human rights, and economic freedom. Here is a terrific animated video that can help educate people about their rights:
http://www.isil.org/resources/introduction.swf
This is from the International Society for Individual Liberty, a non-profit that promotes freedom around the world and holds annual conferences bringing together scholars and activists from different countries including a number from Africa.
ghana leave Zimbabwe us in peace not in peaces. Where were you all along when mugabe was destroying the country. Hands off ghana.Tell me one country which was solved by what you call military intervention. I feel pit for such statements while you have been quiet all along
Can we get back to the FACTS of 80% unemployment, 1,000,000% inflation and 30% of the population of Zimbabwe living outside it's borders?
ZANU-PF/Mugabe has "achieved", in the words of Nelson Mandela, "A tragic failure of leadership"! Does anyone want to argue the wisdom of Nelson Mandela? Phiri? Kuba? Anyone? Does anyone doubt that Mr. Mandela would have been happy/ectstatic to inherit South Africa in the state that Mr. Mugabe found Zimbabwe in 19080?
A country once the breadbasket of Africa, a net-exporter relegated to a net-importer of foodstuffs, a country where a secrecy of the ballot-box no longer applies, a country where freedom of conscience no longer applies. What can ZANU-PF/Mugabe fear from a free election when they have so nobly served the people of Zimbabwe under their stewardship?
ZANU-PF/Mugabe has only delivered independence from white-rule, nothing else! It is one thing to lead a laberation, it is quite another to govern for the benefit of all liberated persons. ZANU-PF/Mugabe has failed in that and, to them, the PEOPLE of Zimbabwe, have had the temerity to renounce them!
Sadly, we are far from the end-game. Mugabe cannot rule Zimbabwe now with the MDC in control of parliament. His only option is too disband parliament, for which the people of Zimbabwe, and the world, will call him to account.
The game is being played into "injury-time", but even if Mugabe prevails in the travesty that is the "run-off" he will be unable to govern, and the MDC dominated parliament will continually "nip at the heels" of the ZANU-PF/Mugabe establishment until they are rendered feeble.
A change is going to come, just not within the timeframe we all hoped an prayed it would come within! The FACTS do not support the continuation of the current regime!
A forgotten fact:THERE IS UN UGLY DUDE IN ZIMBABWE. "SANCTIONS"
Yawn, another one who thinks there's sanctions. Go educate yourself please!
Mindpower, there are so many twits. Mugabe has brain-washed these people to such an extent that they can't see straight. They have a country that is rotting with the highest inflation in the world, they have over 80% of their people with no jobs, they have over 3 million of their people in South Africa and surrounding countries being treated like crap. They have people being abducted, amputated, beaten, burned alive, and killed. In spite of all these horrors that Mugabe is committing, they continue ululating to him. It is mind boggling. Mugabe has helped himself with so much money belonging to Zimbabwe and when the Western countries sanction or freeze that money, they complain about the west. How stupid can people be? Zimbabwe will never recover that money and all other ill-gotten assets. Their banks are bankrupt and their currency worthless. So why is that when they have their so called great and capable leader Mugabe? Colonialism, and Ian Smith's government are long gone, all history, so whose fault is it now? Oh I forgot. It's the west to blame. They have come into Zimbabwe murdered 20,000 in Matabeleland, tortured, burned and murdered many more people in recent months whilst Mugabe watched and did nothing. Is it not what these Mugabe morons are trying to say? Please!
Military intervention has never proved to be effective, judging but what happened in other countries. Besides,when there is intervention,whom will these invaders be fighting? There is no civil strife in Zimbabwe.
There is need tos analyze the situation in Zimbabwe and stop reacting to the problem impulsively,which may end up plunging the country into worse situation than it is.