WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.
Original Post Date: 2005-06-13 Time: 17:12:09 Posted By: Jan
[It appears as if Mugabe is really busy trying to smash the Urban Blacks for once and for all. I wonder if this will get worse? Jan]
IN Operation Murambatsvina/Restore Order the government has created its own Darfur Crisis, cleansing cities of their populations and driving them into rural areas, where some are being chased away because they are not welcome.
The Sudanese government is accused of supporting the Janjaweed militia that has escalated tension between Arab ethnic groups and African ethnic groups, that successive governments have done nothing or little to prevent or contain attacks by Arab militias against non-Arabs. The ethnic cleansing by the Janjaweed has displaced more than one million people internally with an equal number killed by the Janjaweed – the same figures of the estimated victims of the clean up operation in Harare alone.
The combined operation has created internal refugees at a time when the government, by its own admission does not have adequate resources to feed Zimbabweans because of a grain deficit – thanks to a cruel combination of the government’s chaotic fast-tracked agrarian revolution and drought.
James Morris, the United Nations (UN) World Food Programme’s executive director, was in Zimbabwe a fortnight ago to assess the food requirements of the government and how the United Nations could assist. That was before the destructive combined operation was unleashed. Now the number of those requiring humanitarian assistance will have to be revised upwards.
The government has created a desperate situation, with the result that malnutrition will reach unprecedented levels unless action is taken urgently to avert an imminent disaster.
Conditions among the internally displaced in the rural areas could worsen because over the recent past there has been evidence of attempts to restrict movement of people who do not reside in the rural areas, with some suggestions that this is part of a grand ploy to ensure that the silent tragedy in the rural areas does not come to the attention of many people, especially the international community.
Elsewhere in this newspaper we report on villagers in Masvingo province’s Mwenezi district and Matabeleland South province’s Insiza district where allegations of people being denied food because they are simply suspected of supporting the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have been raised. Left unchecked, the situation in the rural areas could leave many people in a vulnerable position.
Restricting access to rural areas would produce tragic results, especially in the wake of Operation Restore Order/Murambatsvina and the general inadequacy of food supplies in the rural areas because more than ever before, relief aid organisations need to be allowed greater latitude so that they can assist in making food available to those in need and at great risk.
Conditions could also deteriorate because even during a good agricultural year, the second half of the year experiences a drop in food availability. The condition of displaced people will worsen unless urgent appropriately needed assistance reaches them in time.
Yet, with more political will Zimbabwe need not be in the position it finds itself today. Zimbabwe deserves a chance and there is an urgent need for it to delink from the traumatic experience of the past five years of its recent history in order to move forward.
There were elements of promises of this shift in President Robert Mugabe’s pronouncements, before during and after last Thursday’s opening of the first session of the Sixth Parliament, when he said the government would be addressing the issue of properties falling under Bilateral Investment Protection Agreements. This is a critical factor in changing the world’s perception of Zimbabwe as an investment destination.
Support for such a shift came from the chairman of the Development Bank of Southern Africa, Jay Naidoo, who was in Harare last Thursday for the launch of The Zimbabwe Independent Quoted Companies 2005 Survey awards presentation.
A former Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) General Secretary and former minister under President Nelson Mandela, Naidoo said: “There is growing evidence that we are in the midst of a significant transformation in Africa, one that is changing not only the way we do things in the political and economic spheres, but also the way we relate to the rest of the world.”
The observation could not have been more appropriate. A delegation from the International Monetary Fund is due to visit Zimbabwe shortly. The discussions with the international financial institution should provide a propitious platform for demonstrating Zimbabwe’s desire and willingness to begin a new chapter with the international investor community. What such a scenario presupposes is first a commitment to correct a number of issues internally.
Source: AllAfrica.Com
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200506130829.htm…/p>