Johannesburg — The Chinese government should immediately recall the shipment of weapons aboard the An Yue Jiang intended for Zimbabwe and currently off the coast of southern Africa, Human Rights Watch said today.
In a letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao released today, Human Rights Watch urged the Chinese government to cease all arms deliveries to Zimbabwe while the very high risk exists of such weapons being used against the civilian population.
"China prides itself on being a 'responsible power,'" said Sophie Richardson, Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. "This means it has no business shipping arms to an abusive government in the middle of a brutal and violent crackdown."
The An Yue Jiang, a property of the state-owned China Ocean Shipping Company, is reportedly carrying 1,500 rocket-propelled grenades, 3,000 mortar rounds and mortar tubes, as well as 3 million rounds of AK-47 assault rifle ammunition. This shipment is believed to correspond to an order placed by the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) leadership in Zimbabwe around the time of the country's disputed elections on March 29, 2008.
The ship was docked last week in the South African port of Durban, but dockworkers refused to unload the cargo. Last Friday, South Africa's High Court barred transport of these weapons across South Africa from Durban to landlocked Zimbabwe after an Anglican archbishop argued that the government of President Robert Mugabe might use them against political opponents.
Human Rights Watch has extensively documented the deteriorating human rights situation in Zimbabwe. Recent abuses include the establishment, by members of Zimbabwe's armed forces and ZANU-PF, of torture camps that are aimed specifically at members of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change and civilians who did not vote for Mugabe in the March elections. Over the past year, police and military forces in Zimbabwe have also repeatedly opened fire on unarmed demonstrators in violation of international law.
In its letter to President Hu, Human Rights Watch said that any state sending new arms and ammunition into this highly repressive environment could be complicit in Zimbabwe's human rights abuses. The planned arms shipment to Zimbabwe violates the principles of China's own regulations for the export of arms to other countries: enabling the buyer to meet legitimate self-defense needs, strengthening peace, security and stability in the region concerned, and not using military sales to interfere in the internal affairs of other states.
"China is trying to put its best face forward as it prepares to host the Beijing Olympics," Richardson said. "But arming Mugabe's Zimbabwe government has disaster plastered all over it."
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Oh Britian, may the living God expose the lies that you tell via the media and these NGOs whose prerogative it is to tow the line in your culture of talking heads riddled with lies, unfounded rumours and gossip. In this generation, if you think for a second that Africa's spiritual leaders will allow the people to be fooled by your antics, your government has another thing coming. We will pray for and protect our young people from becoming pawns and slaves in your economic system.
How can you report about an alleged ZANU-PF order placed for an arms shipment without evidence?
Let the very curses of your doings ruin you!! In other words, for all of the evil this corrupt nation (Britain) has caused in Africa, may the living God revisit every judgment on your government and its royal household in this season. You will now begin to see these judgments manifesting in YOUR ECONOMICS, YOUR POLITICS, and YOUR SOCIAL RELATIONS. In this generation, the LYING BRITISH and their global establishment of deceit will COME TUMBLING DOWN. God is wathcing...USA, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, UK...just watch and see.
Let the prophets of the generation speak the judgments of the Most High God.
What god are you talking about and what century are you living in ayew...If you talk about the Almighty God whose Son is Jesus Christ, then your tongue ayew has slipped.
My question to you is, where have you been when reports of the Chinese ship have been carried in all news reports from Asia to Australia, even the Chinese government acknowledges the existence of the ship. What lies have the British said that you have not said yourself. Cursing is a very powerful tool that only the devil can propegate and it has no power over those who really know the True God of the earth and Haven. Don't bring your uglyness into an already ugly situation in Zimbabwe. The only colonial ruler that you must be afraid of is your own derelick mind that imprisons you to think beyond the past. Histroy dictates that we should never forget our past, but in our quest to avoid our past mistakes, we should by all means free ourselves from the shackles that once held us down (our past).
I speak Blessing upon Zimbabwe and our people at home and abroad, Judgement is for the Lord our God to mit out. Do not be comfortable least you yourself is judged by the One who means the most..God Almighty.
My friend, it is people like you WITHOUT DISCERNMENT who make mockery of spiritual truth and the events that take place in the natural world. You read, yet you DO NOT analyse because you are without discernment. Please read my post again and you may see your error in hastily speaking. And since you believe in the living God whose son is Yeshua, you may want to revisit the scriptures to note the He has the power to bless and curse. Sometimes, he even commissioned PROPHETS to declare his judgments (curses) on unjust nations. Not that the prophet "cursed" the people, but that God did so using the prophetic instrument of judgment.
Get some wisdom and discern. Secondly, let the word transform your mind through obedience to the Holy Spirit. Then you will stop seeing the world through the lenses of BRITISH MEDIA PROPAGANDA, of which the CHINESE have now now become partisan for economic gain. By the way, NO ONE cursed Zimbabwe. We are tired of ignorant RELIGIOUS Africans who cannot see beyond their local church assembly.
THE FIVE WAYS IN WHICH GOD SPEAKS 1. The Written Word; 2. The Prophet; 3. The Audible Voice of the Holy Spirit; 4. The Dream; 5. The Vision.
Allew, so why is God white? You seem to be the guru of the bible - why is God,Jesus and the angles all portraid as white in the good book?
Allen, spare us the western hypocricy and cheer nonsense. God is neither white or black or Asian that's why he is God. That kind of attitude is the reason many of us have never trusted white westerners. You love to be the spokesperson of the world. Africa should not lose it's own agenda and priorities. Right now the priority is Sudan, Somalia, DRC, Stability of Kenya and the resolution of Zimbabwean elections. The African Agenda always falls prey to western interests. Africans must fight back to make sure that African agenda is not being hijacked by the USA or UK. Zimbabwe now is on every UK paper and most of us feel this is an escape from reality. The Britons should focus on Britain. Don't use African politics for your own population. This is what seems to be going on.
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