Is the "white" world celebrating our woes???

Please urgently go to the website below.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/peter_tatchell/2006/10/anc_betrays_black_zimbabwe.html

The debate there is very open and the frightening thought in one of the contributions is:

The "white" world loves to see Africa in troubles of one sort or another. So they have no will-power to help solve Zimbabwe's problems. Their mentality is: Look at those blacks...blah blah. So you, my friend....do you see that too? Please check that out. MSH.

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http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/peter_tatchell/2006/10/anc_betrays_black_zimbabwe.html [Photo] The voice of a nation Polite lobbying of the South African government for action against Robert Mugabe has had no effect; now it is time to get more vocal. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ President Mugabe of Zimbabwe has murdered more black Africans than even the South African apartheid regime. In just one region of Zimbabwe, in just one decade - in Matabeleland in the 1980s - he was responsible for the massacre of 20,000 civilians. This is the equivalent of a Sharpeville massacre every day for more than nine months. There was a global campaign against apartheid. I was part of it for more than 20 years. Why isn't there a similar global campaign against Mugabe's murderous tyranny? Ooops, silly me. The killer is the wrong colour. He's a black murderer, not a white one. Besides, it is racist and neo-imperialist for anyone in the west to criticise the leader of a developing country, even a bloody butcher like Mugabe. Well, that seems to be the perspective of some (not all) of my colleagues on the left. It also appears to be the view of the South African government, judging from the pitiful performance of the South African foreign minister, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, in London on Wednesday night. Speaking at the London School of Economics, she failed to address the two biggest crises facing southern Africa - the HIV pandemic and the chaos and brutality in Zimbabwe. I was there and heard Dr Zuma speak about the importance of international solidarity. She rightly praised the late ANC leader Oliver Tambo, stating that he was an "ardent internationalist" and a person who believed in "true solidarity". This was stomach-churning stuff coming from a foreign minister who, together with the South African president, Thabo Mbeki, does nothing while Zimbabwe burns. It was also too much for the Free Zim Youth (FZY) activists in the audience. "We were sickened to hear Dr Zuma talk about international solidarity when her government is refusing to show solidarity with the persecuted people of Zimbabwe," said Alois Mbawara, one of the organisers of FZY. He led the disruption of Dr Zuma's lecture, in protest at her government's failure to do anything meaningful to pressure Mugabe to hold free and fair elections, and to halt his regime's policies of detention without trial, rape, torture and murder. During the 1970s and 80s, I remember well the ANC's call for international solidarity against apartheid. The world responded and the ANC has since said that global support helped the victory over white minority rule. Despite having benefited from an international solidarity campaign to win black freedom, the ANC is now refusing to show solidarity with the freedom struggle of the people of Zimbabwe. The ANC had a Freedom Charter for South Africa. Don't Zimbabweans deserve a freedom charter too - and shouldn't the ANC be helping them win it? I hate to criticise my friends in the ANC but the truth is that President Mbeki's "quiet diplomacy" has failed. Mugabe's abuses have increased, not diminished, with millions at risk of starvation because they are being denied food. Why? They don't get food because they live in regions of the country that voted for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. I call it political cleansing. The ANC once led a heroic liberation struggle. Now it seems to be turning its back on the ideals of liberation and internationalism. Some of its leaders have become complacent and corrupt, suddenly accruing fabulous wealth. The government in Pretoria spends vast sums on armaments, while claiming there is not enough money to combat HIV, fund land reform and treat Zimbabwean refugees humanely. With these concerns in mind, I joined the protest; jumping up onto the stage behind Dr Zuma and holding up a placard reading: "Mbeki's shame. ANC betrays black Zimbabwe." It wasn't long before I was fingered by PC Plod: "Mr Tatchell, it's time to leave," he said. Next thing I knew I was put in a restraining grip, my wrist forced back and my fingers crushed to pinch the nerves. I was powerless to resist. That was the end of my protest. Soon afterwards, more black Zimbabweans erupted from the audience. After a few minutes, we all were either ejected or left of our own free will. We had made our point. Dr Zuma was able to complete her miserable lecture. Although Dr Zuma was greeted by warm applause when she arrived, by the time she finished her speech she had alienated much of the audience. They were riled by her arrogant, heartless refusal to express even a few words of concern for the Zimbabwean people. Particularly reprehensible was Dr Zuma's parting shot: that Zimbabweans in Britain had no right to speak out about the situation in their homeland. This is a bit rich coming from Dr Zuma, who spent much of the apartheid era in exile in the UK. While we continued our protest outside the LSE, Dr Zuma was humiliatingly smuggled out of a side exit to a waiting unmarked car. She scuttled away like the shamed foreign minister she is. Polite lobbying of the South African government has got us nowhere. The ANC ignores all cries for help from Zimbabwe. That's why we had to stage this protest. The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, MPs and civic leaders have been brutalised while peacefully demonstrating for fair wages, against rocketing prices and mass evictions, and for basic human rights.

We have seen South Africa blocking calls for the UN to investigate Mugabe's abuses. It has endorsed Zimbabwe's flawed elections, even though they were conducted in an atmosphere of violent intimidation by Mugabe's henchmen. "We salute Cosatu and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Unlike the ANC, they have spoken out against human rights abuses in Zimbabwe. They stand in solidarity with ordinary Zimbabweans. Mbeki, Zuma and the ANC see nothing, hear nothing and do nothing," said FZY protester, Wellington Chibanguza. "The Zimbabwean people supported South Africans in the fight against apartheid. Now it is time for South Africa to support Zimbabweans in the fight against Mugabe's dictatorship," he said. Mugabe has killed tens of thousands of Zimbaweans, but he cannot kill a nation and its yearning to be free. The old rally cry of the ANC is more relevant than ever to Zimbabwe: "Amandla! Awethu!" - Power! To the people! @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

The posting in question>>> please read very carefully!

Comment No. 275332 October 30 22:55

"The Zimbabwean situation or rather crisis should be of uttermost
impotance to the African continent and the black race universally. The
Zimbabwean issue is more than what meets the general eye; it is a water
shed, a defining moment in the making of African history and that of
the black race. It will be in the history not of Zimbabwe alone but of
the world. The Mugabe regime's wanton destruction of Zimbabwean will
have a negative impact not only on the Zimbabwean future alone but that
of Africa and the black race. This is what fellow African leaders, black empowerment movements and
the generality of the African and black population worldwide fail to
see. It is also possible that our "full-of-I-know" President and his
Z.A.N.U (Permanent Force) party do not know the tragedy to which they
are exposing Africa and the black race. Whether one likes it or not the
question of race is one which the world can not run away from, I am not
trying to be a racist here but just trying to face facts as they are. Mugabe seems to think that he is at war with Tony Blair who I will bet
does not lose a little bit of sleep over Zimbabwe. He froths and shouts
at Blair at the least of the given opportunities he get. Now that Blair who came into power a decade later than Mugabe is
leaving office next year I wonder who Mugabe will pick on as his next
target of his imaginary war or as an object to use as one of his
diversionary tactics. Blair of all things in the world can never care
so much about Zimbabwe and neither will George Bush of the U.S.A. This is what the black race worldwide should know including people
like U.S.A Secretary of State Condolence Rice who I think needs to be
constantly reminded that she is black .The issue is I don't believe
that that the likes of Bush and Blair want to see Mugabe out of power
at all but rather want and have to a greater extent helped him to stay
in power. Mugabe's continuous stay in power and his destruction of Zimbabwe
serves well the interests of the west. The west has always portrayed
Africa as a failure and the black race as incapable of doing anything
positive on its own. Zimbabwe thus under the mentally deluded Mugabe to
the likes of Bush and Blair is a good example to the whole world that
blacks can not do anything without the white man. The west would rather have Zimbabwe grind to a halt if it has not
already come to that. They would rather have Zimbabwe come to it knees
so that it will serve as an example to the world how a black person is
a failure without the white man . Mugabe on the other hand has played the piper and thinks that actually
he is invincible whilst he is being used to degrade black people and
Africa. In his self imposed delusion Mugabe thinks he is leading the
third world fight against the west yet he is actually serving the
west's cause. The west is using Mugabe as an example to the whole world
to portray African leaders as a pack of confusion that needs guidance
from the west in order to run their countries. Soon after the constitutional referendum in 2000 it was quite clear to
the whole wide that the tide of Zimbabwean politics was about to
change. The exit sign was on the wall for Robert Mugabe and the
opposition led by Morgan Tsvangirai was set to take over Zimbabwe.
Events however did not turn out that way thanks to the interference of
the west led by Britain and America in Zimbabwean internal issues. The
west knew that the M.D.C was going to take over Zimbabwe and interfered
in order to make sure that this would not happen. It's not a secret that if there was anyone who advocated for land
redistribution then it was Morgan Tsvangirai whilst Mugabe then was
turning a deaf ear plus a button wielding hand to anyone who dared talk
about land reform to which the people Svosve will testify. It meant therefore to the western world that the coming into power of a
government with a comprehensive land redistribution plan the M.D.C it
would mean the success of the land reform in Zimbabwe which indeed
would serve as an example to fellow African countries that in indeed
land reform could be carried out successfully. This, the likes of Tony
Blair wanted to avoid and they did so in a diplomatic way which the
ordinary could not see. They could not let such an example be set for
the world. It's no secret that the openness with which the west especially Britain
and America got involved in the Zimbabwean issues played straight in to
the hands of Robert Mugabe and to a greater extent made people
suspicious of the M.D.C. as a foreign dominated party. This did cost
the M.D.C many votes especially amongst the rural folk and former
freedom fighters who would not in accept anything associated let alone
backed by the former colonial master Britain. The point here is not that they were not supposed to get involved,
after all!"

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