ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU ADDS VOICE TO CONDEMNATION OF MUGABE!

Zimbabwe: Africans Should 'Hang Heads in Shame' - Tutu!

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March 16, 2007

Posted to the web March 16, 2007

Cape Town

Africans should "hang our heads in shame" at this week's suppression of
opposition protest in Zimbabwe, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa said
today.

In a statement issued by his office in Cape Town, Tutu asked: "How can what
is happening... elicit hardly a word of concern let alone condemnation from
us leaders of Africa?"

"What more has to happen before we who are leaders, religious and political,
of our mother Africa are moved to cry out 'Enough is enough'? Do we really
care about human rights, do we care that people of flesh and blood, fellow
Africans are being treated like rubbish, almost worse than they were ever
treated by rabid racists?"

Earlier this week, Zwelinzima Vavi, secretary-general of the Congress of
South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), said events in Zimbabwe showed that
South Africa's policy of "silent diplomacy" had not worked.

Tutu, the Anglican archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, said he was thankful
that Cosatu had spoken out. "I share their consternation at the silence from
those we would have expected to speak out on behalf of the voiceless, the
powerless ones," he added.