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Zimbabwe: G8 Nations Promise Sanctions
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8 July 2008
Posted to the web 8 July 2008
John Allen
The leaders of the world's most powerful nations have declared they will impose financial and other sanctions on leaders they describe as "those individuals responsible for violence" in Zimbabwe.
In a statement issued by the G8 Summit in Toyako, Japan, the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States effectively rejected the government of President Robert Mugabe as illegitimate.
"We do not accept the legitimacy of any government that does not reflect the will of the Zimbabwean people," the leaders said. Referring to this year's first round of elections in which Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) won the most votes, they added: "It is important that any mediation process respect the results of the March 29, 2008 election."
They accused the ruling Zanu-PF party of "systematic violence, obstruction and intimidation" ahead of the second round of voting on June 27.
The leaders also issued an implicit call for the Southern African Development Community's mediation, led by President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, to be widened to include other mediators. The MDC accuses Mbeki of bias towards Mugabe.
The G8 called on the African Union and SADC to "provide strong leadership," including taking measures aimed at "further strengthening the regional mediation process." The leaders also called for the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, to appoint a special envoy to support the efforts of SADC and AU.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was reported earlier to have opposed sanctions. But Reuters quoted him Tuesday as saying that "even Russia" now supported them.
"The others' views let me see how it's necessary today to declare ... the illegitimacy of Mugabe's position and therefore to indicate the urgency of sanctions at the UN Security Council," Berlusconi said.
The United States said last week it expected a vote on sanctions at the Security Council this week.
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Partition of Africa # 2 Daylight Racism! This is an absolute racism! Now Africa is back to square one. African should go back to the bush to fight Colonialism! How sad!
Go back to the bush to fight colonialism? That would be a little boring, hasn't been any colonists around for a while now..........
Western countries want Mugabe ousted from power for two reasons. First, Mugabe sent his military to DR Congo in the 1990's to halt the invasion and occupation of DR Congo by the armies of Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda. The invasion was financially and militarily sponsored by the USA and UK with the aim of effecting a regime change in DR Congo so that western countries would exploit (loot) the natural resources of DR Congo at will. Up until the time of the invasion, Zimbabwe had been buying its jet fighters from England, with an agreement that the sellers of those... [Read Full Text]
Mugabe is not a leader but a ruler who does not know his head for his ass. At 82 years old, how much longer does he think that he and his clans men can hold on to power. I just hope that he and his uneducated generals can be arrested sonner to stand trail for crime against humanity before he passes away.
Couldnt agree more. He's just systematically arranged for the murder of his own people to stay in power. Not to mention the political imprisonment of over 1000 MDC supporters and torture and displacement of 1000's more. And thats before you look at the 20000 Ndebele civilians he murdered to get power in the first place. He's a disgrace to his people and should be tried for his crimes against humanity. Oh. And yes I have a father. And he taught me that bullys should not be appeased.
One would have to be pretty dumb to believe that. The very fact that these countries think that they have the right to interfere in an African country's internal affairs to help the cause of one of its fellow members gives the lie to your statement.
If your neighbour was beating up his wife and murdering his kids, would you not step in?
Not if the beating and murdering were fantasies that I dreamed up so I could steal my neighbor's property.
Well if you think that no one died or were beaten as a result of the Mugabe governments desperation to cling to power, then you are simply a poor deluded fool. There is plenty of evidence and photos to support this.
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