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Finance and Operations Director - Fahamu

Fahamu is seeking an experienced Finance and Operations Director to manage the organisation's finance and operations team.
This role will be based in Nairobi, Kenya but will have a remit covering the whole of Fahamu's pan-African programmes with offices in Kenya, Senegal, South Africa and UK.
The deadline for applications is February 10, 2012.

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The first crime committed is colonisation

A response to ‘Staggering from pillar to post: Zimbabwe’s "unity" government'

Lloyd Whitefield Butler, Jr

2010-03-11, Issue 473

http://pambazuka.org/en/category/letters/62922

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Mary Ndlovu's article is well-written, says Lloyd Whitefield Butler, but it doesn't address the root causes of the present Zimbabwe crisis.

Staggering from pillar to post is well written. Thank you. Ms Mary Ndlovu, I did not find in your article root causes of the present Zimbabwe crisis; I am sure the troublemakers are just waiting to be uncovered. Would you be kind enough to refer me or cite what international law, or non-colonial precedence, gives Western nations authority, permission, and/or the unmitigating gall to sanction, embargo, and colonise any nation given their (the West) past imperial criminal record whereby millions of native inhabitants were exterminated and their land forcefully seized under their watchful eye?

The first crime committed here is Western colonisation. Or do you recognise it as a crime against humanity? The West illegally extracted trillions of dollars from Zimbabwe and South Africa by way of forced labor and land seizure by warfare. Not a single Western government has faced a day in court or paid reparations. Now comes the emergence of the oppressed masses who liberate themselves by the threat of war and the oppressor wants to now dictate the ways and means one is to avenge and demand economic justice from the same dehumanisers and land swindlers.

If Western nations demand ‘democracy’ as a legitimate system of government why is all crimes committed not ‘on the table’ of Justice when the subject of law violations past and present are discussed.

Is there a statute of limitations on crimes of colonialism, apartheid, and slavery? If so, where is the citation? I noticed in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission that for hundreds of years of brute Nazi oppression by white Europeans the Commission concluded by reducing their findings to a local ‘Police Brutality’ case. Did I misread the Commissions results? Can Zimbabwe expect a similar outcome for their active Rhodesian-Apartheid-related-crimes-against-humanity counter oppression measures of Land Securement and promoting Unity in Defence of Natural Resources, Cultural Values, and Economic Empowerment?

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