Dear Mr. Annan:

You either know something you are not telling us, or you know very little, in fact, you may be ignorant.

1)" ..bringing about a transition to an inclusive government in Zimbabwe. ..." For that, Mr. Annan, you will have to change the constitution of Zimbabwe since it does not specify that the loser in the elections must dictate terms in the formation of the government. Neither is thge name "Annan" mentioned therein.

The people of Zimabwe may not let you ride roughshod over them, their constitution and their sovereignty the way you did in Kenya early this year at the behest of your foreign masters. The ease and cockiness with which you did it then - over the graves of thousands who were slaughtered and the sorrow of the millions dislocated - seems to have emboldened you and filled you with euphoria.

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2) " .. Annan said in a statement issued in Paris.."

'Paris! Isn't he great', the native would say!

Yet we know also that there are homeless natives living and selling roasted maize on the streets of Paris - just as they do on the streets of Nairobi and Harare.

"Regime Change" in Kenya, anyone?

What is the idea of "statement issued in Paris"? If you are talking about Zimbabwe, why not issue your statement in Zimbabwe? Should the people of maZimbabwe shake and quake on hearing that a statement came from Paris of the colonial powers? Mr Annan, do you wish the African to be ruled from Europe?

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3) " ... Carter said in Sunday's statement that "the [Mugabe] regime has been in denial about what is happening in their country .."

There is a financial meltdown in USA that dwarf that in Zimbabwe. Carter seems to have THE solution. Would Carter consider hurrying back to his USA to push for a similar dose of a "regime change" there (of the type we see happening in Iraq that would completely remake the political, social and cultural life of the country.)?

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4) Odinga is quoted in today's foreign press as having called on foreigners to invade Zimbabwe. This, more than forty years after Lumumba! And many decades after Nkrumah! And after many many Africans died to shed the yoke of colonial invaders and plunderers!

How many Kenyans still think that Odinga has what it takes to be a leader in Kenya, let alone Africa?

[HA! An empty tin. Does Odinga have a track record in leading a country to prosperity, let alone a continent? NO. HA!]

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5) Zimbabwe is an member of the AU. Would we expect a leader of a country in Europe, say UK, to call on Russia, North Vietnam or China to invade another EU member country, say France? NO. Behold, Odinga the naive.

[Abnoxious. Banda is known to have said that some are like hyenas that urinate upwind to scatter the heard downwind. Are these 'elders' in it just to assuage their bloated egos? Carter knows better. Is he prosecuting an imperial design among the unsuspecting natives and the naive fellow 'elders'?]

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6) The so-called "elders" - and Carter in particular - do not refer to, or even seem to be aware of, to the sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by Carter's USA as well as UK and the EU countries.

Carter knows that with regard to the plight of the citizens of Zimbabwe, the economic sanctions imposed by whites are THE precipitating factor. And he knows that the state that Zimbabwe is in is precisely the state that economic sanctions are meant to bring about - as witnessed in the case of USA's sanctions on, among others, Cuba and Iraq. Thus by NOT mentioning the sanctions, he reveals himself as lacking candor and less than an honest broker of peace.

And by seemingly empathizing with the suffering natives and yet not calling on his USA and his ancestral UK to lift the sanctions that cause the suffering, Carter reveals his moral bankruptcy.

Sometimes the word "elder" suggests one with wisdom and insight gained from living the life. Sometimes, and especially with the parade of clowns in this article, it means just plain old.

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Chokora,why dont you just continue enjoying spending the forex you are getting from these idiots Mugabe and the crew and save us some space by not making such ridiculous comments...we know who is paying you to write these stupid comments,so you and your masters will definately get whats coming to you,its only a matter of time sucker.

Mugabe ain't the one dishing out forex... that's the authors of regime change in Zim...

BRUNOMANEX........I AM BEHIND YOU BRO.I FEEL YOU VERY WELL.CHOKORA IS STUPID.I LACK WORDS TO THE IGNORANCE HE WROTE.LIKE YOU SAID,THEIR DAYZ ARE NUMBERED.

it is apparently clear that we do not value human life as i see some comments from people. the Zimbabwe crisis is appaling when the common man is going without food, the economy is at a standstill and the president and his cronies are living at bliss holding on to power, it shows how they are leading, that is if they are leading at all a nation that was once prosperous to teh dogs. if annan can assist to bring the situiation to rest so let it be. this has nothing to do with where he is from. we are a global society one countries issues affects the other. we need to act the leaders of Zim need to accept that the cpuntry si and will alwasy be greater than them and will live far after they are no more, so Annan andhis team we support your hope efforts commenst and hope the southern leaders will act decisively immedaitley

Gijo,thanks man you are a true Zimbabwean unlike that idiot chokora who thinks of himself and his other tsotsis in Zanu.we have suffered enough and we urgently need all the positive influence we can get from outside our borders because our situation has gone beyond repairable measures and we sustain people like Annan and his crew for their efforts to restore our country where it should be,because as Zimbabweans we have done our share to change this evil government through our democratic right of voting but we have been denied our freedom by these evil people as they had continuosly rigged the elections.Now is the time for the world to rally behind us otherwise we are going to be wiped out by these manmade dissasters of thse cholera,hunger and starvation.Mugabe must go,and we hope Annan will continue to work towards achieving that goal.Chokora and Mugabe you can go and burn in hell with the rest of other murders,but imbabwe must return to its rightful citizens,Zimbabweans not Mugabes.

If Afica has to be disappointed in any leader from anywhere regarding the Zim crisis, that leader has to be first and foremost Kofi Annan. For some of us the man's hypocrisy makes us sick. Zimbabwe was and still is being battered left right and centre by sanctions that were imposed by the US and EU in carhoots and at the behest of the UK that the se countries and block imposed without the mandate of the UN which Annan was leading at the time in 2001. Now he wants to pretend not to know what the root of the problems in Zimbabwe. He has jumped into bed with those who have vowed to make Zimbabawe not only a colony again but to demonstrate to other like minded governments throughout the world that defying western dictated hegemony is done so at the risk of not only destroying that government but breaking the people also so that no one will dare rise again in defiance of the west. Each time that fellow Kofi opens his mouth about Zimbabwe, I cringe to realise that the man has sunk so low as to selling out fellow Africans into bondage as long as his Swiss account grows fat. Shame on you Kofi. A true African will be going around the world, using his stature and influence (in Kofi's case we are assuming he has any)to highlight the plight of Zimbabwean under sanctions and to advocate vigorously for the lifting of those sanctions rather pretnding to have only eyes that see one side of the story. Zvimwe muchinyarawo vanaKofi (you must have shame for some of the things you do people like Kofi)Is he afraid of speaking out against those ganging up to mess up Zimbabwe? REMOVE SANCTIONS AND SEE WHAT ZIMBABWE WILL DO!

Now please tell us what sanctions you are referring too. Do you mean the ones banning arms from entering Zimbabwe, or do you mean the sanctions on travel for Mugabe's thugs? Or the ones on the 4 companies that prop up this murderous regime (one I think makes army uniforms). Which sanctions are you referring too? Surely none of these if removed could help Zimbabwe, because they didnt cause the problems in the first place. Ever wonder why Mugabes government is listed as 14th in the world as most corrupt? I think you need to take a look within and stop blaming others for your own shortcomings, because your own shortcomings wont go away while looking elsewhere...