By Rolex Akena-Ogwal
Friday, June 13, 2008
PLEASE help me insert my concerns on the negligence of the United Nations and United States Government in handling the current political crisis in Zimbabwe.
It’s clear in the minds of all right thinking Africans that Mugabe’s rule is off the truck now. What bothers me most is the usual pleas and barking by the American Government and United Nations telling Mugabe administration to respect human rights and stop oppressing the opposition led by MDC’s Morgan Tsvangirai.
Why should the duo continue with their daily noise to direct the Mugabe’s Government which is clearly not willing to change from their autocratic, backward, dehumanizing and totalitarian rule against Zimbabweans!
It’s shocking to hear that a government led by human beings is stopping aid workers from distributing food aid to the hungry population who happens to be the country’s citizens.
Today you hear “police has detained opposition leader Morgan Tsvangira, tomorrow Mugabe is describing a fellow African brother- Tsvangirai as Western Parapet!, government charging opposition’s Tendai Biti with treason yet leaving the so called war veterans who are publicly threatening war incase Mugabe looses!
If I may ask, who should really be charged with treason, Tendai Biti or the War Veterans? Of course war veterans.
Why can’t America take the step it swiftly took on Saddam Hussein’s administration in Iraq to solve the Zimbabwean question?
I and other people who reason like me need to be educated on UN’s roles in world conflicts as well as America the world’s super power.
Otherwise Zimbabwe’s violence-marred election has posed a great test to the relevancy of the United Nations existence.
WAY FORWARD – UN and America should keep quiet instead of issuing statements of condemnation and appeals to President Mugabe’s Government. This makes them look like toothless dogs instead of taking actions on already enough appeals made by human rights organizations in Zimbabwe.
Rolex Akena-Ogwal
TEL: +256 772 589 522
The author is a Radio journalist in Lira, Northern Uganda.
Rolex Akena Ogwal; mugabe as i know, is now possesed with what i call political madness,a disease that is really spreading very fast among revolutionary africans.what makes african head of states behave like mugabe,have come to belive is due to their background.most of them had avery humble background and they fear leaving statehouse could make them slidet to the statusquo.for the U.S,UK &UN,zimbabwe does not have weapon of mass distruction,no oil,does not feature among the so called strategic allies to global war on terror. so it does not matter at all.africans should wake up.let zimbabweans wake up.unless we have another julius nyerere,the zimbabwens will continue having their AMIN of 21st centuary.