Dr John K Fulton, The Alliance For Southern African Progress

Dear Madam/Sir,
The prevailing political and economic cataclysms of Zimbabwe demand high priority action from the international community. Peace and security in the country is no longer a mere threat, but breeched in real terms, with dire implications internally and regionally if the atrocious human rights violations in the country are permitted to persist or escalate. The offensive politically motivated violence and blatant contempt for justice, law and order is the direct result of Robert Mugabe’s untenable governance policies.
There can be little more horrifying than Mugabe’s political insanity in full sail, save perhaps for his government’s dastardly financial and deceitful social management techniques. No less horrific, is recent history revealing Zimbabwe’s governing regime as being abhorrently unique to its species, in its resolute determination to swiftly destroy its own tormented kind en masse, for the proliferating benefit of a handful of ungrateful and financially voracious individuals. There cannot be a milder term to apply to the rich and rapacious preying on the disadvantaged poor and starving, as Robert Mugabe fervently subscribes to a portfolio of vicious control at any cost.
Zimbabwe’s crisis has reached an explosive point, with determined external intervention now intrinsic to resolutely combating poverty, starvation, violent land reform, political violence, extensive human rights violations underscored by uncontrolled torture and the overall tyranny being deliberately perpetrated by Mugabe's government. Western and European countries and African nations claiming adherence to sane democracy and supposed alignment with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, are thus obligated to engage their diplomatic offices, trade links and other missions, as the railroad of expressively stating disapproval of Mugabe's rampant and all-embracing inhumane abuse of innocent Zimbabweans. It is furthermore, a means of bringing tangible pressure on Mugabe’s regime to immediately restore justice, law and order and unequivocal abidance to the rule. If timeous demands by the international community meet with Mugabe’s continued disregard within a specified time frame, evocative and consequential calls must be lodged for his immediate resignation.
To accentuate the Zimbabwean dilemma, we are now informed by the UK Guardian, of Ms Claire Short reporting the British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair and his government, as having agreed with France to allow Mugabe to evade the EU travel ban and attend a Franco-African Summit in Paris in February 2003, in a trade-off that France would not oppose the renewal of EU sanctions at the next sitting of the General Council. This development is not only outrageous and objectionable, but also holistically dishonourable in its betrayal of nearly eight million comprehensively disadvantaged and starving Zimbabweans.
Any responsible government having been a contributing instrument to ‘Smart Sanctions’ on Mugabe and his government officials, are now verging on partnering mechanisms that support further human rights violations, economic destruction and social order desecration in Zimbabwe, by taking a non-retaliatory position on the emerging laxness of the current ‘Smart Sanctions’ against Mugabe, enabling him to attend the Franco-African Summit. This position also renders the people of any ‘Smart Sanctions’ participating country, fundamentally supportive of mass starvation, torture and oppression, through their respective governments inactive position on ensuring Mugabe is well banned from attending the summit.
The international community’s moral integrity cannot permit a continuation of gross human rights violations, mass starvation and the mockery of democracy that permits trading with human lives to up-hold Robert Mugabe’s treacherously brutal rule. Unequivocally therefore, this is a registration of a plea on behalf of the millions of innocent and disadvantaged starving Zimbabweans, to the international community to urgently initiate processes that will restore peace, security, social and economic stability in Zimbabwe, beginning with the enforcement of the EU ban to prevent Mugabe attending the Franco-African Summit in Paris in February 2003.
In the name of humanitarian sanity,
Dr John K Fulton
Chairman
The Alliance For Southern African Progress
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