SHOOT: Rivetting piece on the parallels between the two countries. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Two South African MPs, Wilmot James and Kenneth Mubu, who returned earlier this month from Zimbabwe on a fact-finding mission reported that “there are reports from credible sources of increasing paramilitary activity in the countryside.”
They explained: “Under his [Mugabe’s] personal control he has a paramilitary machine consisting of soldiers, thugs, the so-called war veterans and Zanu political commissars. There are the hit squads. The police also collaborate.” They also have reason to believe that in addition to the arms exports uncovered by IPIS “Mugabe is talking to Venezuela, Cuba and Korea to fund a war-chest in preparation for the referendum and election following on the implementation of the GPA.”
While Rwanda’s genocide was powered by ethnic hatred, this was merely a pretext: the tragedy was deliberately orchestrated by a shadowy ruling clique which knew its power was in jeopardy and which refused to sacrifice it at all cost. |
clipped from www.thoughtleader.co.za
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