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Zimbabwe: Zimbabweans Seek Refuge At U.S. Embassy Harare
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SW Radio Africa (London)
3 July 2008
Posted to the web 3 July 2008
Violet Gonda
More desperate Zimbabweans have been trying to find sanctuary at a foreign embassy. A spokesperson for the United States embassy confirmed that at least 250 victims of politically motivated violence had arrived at their gates seeking help.
The official said it's not known yet what would happen to the refugees but the Red Cross and UNICEF had been at the scene. Recently an estimated 300 MDC supporters had sought refuge at the South African embassy in Harare.
The development comes amidst more reports of state sponsored violence, leading to the death of another MDC activist. It's reported that Daniel Ngondo, an election agent for an MDC councillor in the Munyatipanzi area in Gokwe, was murdered by ZANU PF thugs on Wednesday afternoon. A relative of the deceased, who remains anonymous for security reasons, said his 65 year old cousin, together with two others, were ambushed when they had gone to help one of their members whose homestead had been burnt down the previous day.
The emailed report said: "Daniel and the other two people failed to escape and were beaten hard. Daniel died on the spot and the other two people are in serious condition. After murdering Daniel the group proceeded to Davison Magora's homestead and burnt it down. They also burnt down his neighbors homestead." Daniel Ngondo's body was taken to Nembudziya police station.
We were not able to get a comment from the police.
There was hope that the violence would cease in the aftermath of the African Union summit, where the political parties were called on to negotiate a peaceful settlement. But the events on the ground in Zimbabwe tell a different story.
Also this week the MP for Buhera South, Naison Nemadziva, was abducted at gunpoint at the Mutare magistrate court. His whereabouts are unknown.
Violence has also been reported in Masvingo and Mashonaland East provinces. Over 10 MDC supporters have been murdered since Zanu PF held its sham election on 27 June 2008, most of them from Manicaland province. At least 100 MDC supporters and officials have been killed since the first round of elections held on March 29.
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Conservative estimates by the MDC say there are at least 200 people are still missing, a quarter of a million have been displaced and thousands tortured by members of the Mugabe regime.
Apparently, this is the kind of crap that happens when you treat your citizens like criminals because they simply hold a different political, social or economic opinion than you.
Hopefully, they'll find refuge in a nation-state with a more liberal-minded government. However, I don't know if the further emigration of disaffected Zimbabweans en masse will affect an amelioration of the situation by simply handing control of the country to the fascists by default.
Also, emigration to other countries seems like less of an option as the EU, U.S. and Australia is attempting to put a firmer lock on migration (especially... [Read Full Text]
Rayne...Zimbabweans seek refuge in the USA Embassy. I wish them good luck. Just ask the Iraqis seeking refuge to the USA. The later took just 700 of them from 2003 to today, after more than 5 years of their war, more than 1 million dead, 3 million refuges to the neighboring Arab countries and an other 3 million Iraqis internally displaced, plus the devastation and destruction of Iraq . The Iraqis are Muslims and dark skinned,you know, right? The Zimbabweans are black a poor. So, I honestly wish them good luck.
I wish the same for them as well, as a U.S. citizen. At least God help them with trying to get as far as possible from coalition troops, Sunni suicide bombers (that may use the mentally challenged to do the dirty work), Shi'ite mullahs (including one that may one day be an Ayatollah and leads a militia of thousands to protect his interests while he's in study in Iran), and vengeful Ba'athists all with some varying degree of bloodlust for a variety of reasons.
Why do we always seem to forget that Iraq is currently mired in violence and violent... [Read Full Text]
Rayne...Zimbabweans seek refuge in the USA Embassy. I wish them good luck. Just ask the Iraqis seeking refuge to the USA. The later took just 700 of them from 2003 to today, after more than 5 years of their war, more than 1 million dead, 3 million refuges to the neighboring Arab countries and an other 3 million Iraqis internally displaced, plus the devastation and destruction of Iraq . The Iraqis are Muslims and dark skinned,you know, right? The Zimbabweans are black and poor. So, I honestly wish them good luck.
Zimbabweans going to the US Embassy and they all arrived at the same time, same day, where have they been and who told them all to go there, after the elections are over? Why didn't these people flood all Embassies during the run up to the elections? That would have made more sense? The ones who went to the South Africa embassy are now being taken care of by the Government of Zimbabwe the same one which is torturing them, how odd? MDC Harvest House how many rooms do they have and how can all those people fit in the... [Read Full Text]
Um, the mayor-elect was elected by the MDC majority city council, which has previously suffered interference when Elias Mudzuri (the previous elected mayor, also the MDC organizing secretary) was forced out of office by the central government a few years back.
Also, some of the people who're now in the US embassy had previously been kicked out of MDC headquarters where they had been residing during and after the run-off. And of course the South Africans put the Zimbabweans out of the embassy, since they just had the anti-foreigner riots in South Africa back in May.
Either way, they're trying... [Read Full Text]
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