Tue 25 Sep 2007
Genocide & African Parallel History…
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This article came in from on email from Eddie Cross, whilst I have also added in another article that caught my eye yesterday.
First things first, entitled “Genocide in
A trip to the rural areas in Mashonaland East last week was yet another shocking reality check on the human suffering caused by One Man and His Party. I saw so many thin people with dull eyes and dull skins, children not in school because there is no money for fees… and so their suffering continues.
I would like to draw attention to two articles in the Genocide Convention –
There are two salient articles in the Convention: Â
Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:Â Â
- Killing members of the group; (over 300 MDC members murdered since 1999)
- causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (it is estimated that approx. 70% of Zimbabweans are acutely stressed)
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (Gukuruhundi Genocide Matabeleland 1982 over 25,000 people brutally tortured and murdered; Operation Murambatsvina where over 700,000 peoples homes were raised to the ground; the mass evictions of farmers and their employees)
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. (forcing young people – some as young as 15 – into Militia camps for training in violence and torture).
Article III: The following acts shall be punishable: Â
- Genocide;
- Conspiracy to commit genocide; (ZANU PF Minister Didymus Mutasa’s infamous quote that “we would be better off without those 6 million people who don’t support the party”.
- Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (President Mugabe: “go out and bash them” the opposition, students, unions)
- Attempt to commit genocide;
- Complicity in genocide.
The following are acts of genocide when committed as part of a policy to destroy a group’s existence: Â
- Killing members of the group includes direct killing and actions causing death.
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm includes inflicting trauma on members of the group through widespread torture, rape, sexual violence, forced or coerced use of drugs, and mutilation.
- Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to destroy a group includes the deliberate deprivation of resources needed for the group’s physical survival, such as clean water, food, clothing, shelter or medical services.
- Deprivation of the means to sustain life can be imposed through confiscation of harvests, blockade of foodstuffs, detention in camps, forcible relocation or expulsion into deserts.Â
- Prevention of births includes involuntary sterilization, forced abortion, prohibition of marriage, and long-term separation of men and women intended to prevent procreation.
- Forcible transfer of children may be imposed by direct force or by through fear of violence, duress, detention, psychological oppression or other methods of coercion. The Convention on the Rights of the Child defines children as persons under the age of 14 years.
It is must be noted that only the “prevention of births…” second last bullet point has not applied in
So why may I ask, is SADC, especially South Africa, as well as the rest of the supposedly civilised world, standing back while this is taking place? Where is the black brother/sisterhood? Does it only apply President to President? Does it matter not that a conservatively estimated 3500 Zimbabweans are dying every week, HIV and starvation.
I sincerely hope that the current UN Secretary General will not have to make the same apology, to Zimbabweans, as his predecessor did over the Ruwanda Genocide. Perhaps the apology could be made now, as the Genocide in
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Whilst a second article compared recent African HISTORY within differing countries:
Dear Eddie,
Excuse my outburst but the situation with the leadership in
1. If Comrade Mengistu Haile Mariam had been willing to step aside in 1989,
2. If General Siad Barre had been willing to step aside in 1991,
3. If General Juvenal Habryimana had been willing to step aside in 1993,
4.. If General
5.If General Mobutu Sese Seko had been willing to step aside in 1996,
6. If General Samuel Doe had been willing to step aside in 1995,
7. If General Joseph Momoh had been willing to step aside in 1994, SIERRA LEONE would have been saved. But he stayed on, causing the destruction of the country and the deaths of at least 1 million Sierra Leonians from starvation and famine. Eventually, he fled to
8. If Col. Omar el Bashir had been willing to step aside in 1999,
Need more examples?
9. If Mugabe had been willing to step aside in 1998,
11. If Bozize of
12. If dos
13. If Idriss Deby of
14. If Conte of
15. If Comparaore of
Let’s add up the LOSS of lives caused by the obstinacy of just the first 6 leaders. It is 13 million and compare that to the 10 million people
Racists would gloat over these numbers.
The modern leadership is a despicable disgrace to black
The traditional rulers built states, kingdoms and empires, some of which lasted for centuries and still exist. The Ghana Empire, for example, lasted for 800 years.
We know who the true and real leaders of black
George Ayittey,
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