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ParticipatoryDemocracy.net Demands the end of Repression in Zimbabwe - 2008/06/30 10:41
Madrid–Caracas–Miami, 25 June 2008.– ParticipatoryDemocracy.net strongly condemns the repressive actions of President Robert Mugabe and the Zimbabwe government against the democratic opposition’s presidential candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai, forced to withdraw from this Friday the 27th of June’s runoff elections and to seek asylum inside the Dutch embassy to save his life. Such actions, including the bloody repression and persecution of voters identified as Tsvangirai’s sympathizers, constitute a grave violation of the international law and the universally recognized human rights and democratic standards.
Mr. Tsvangirai commented that “The violence, intimidation, death, destruction of property is just too much for anyone to dream of a free and fair election, let alone expect our people to be able to freely and independently express themselves. For this reason, my party and I have resolved that we cannot be part of this flawed process."
The Zimbabwean government has continued to brutalize its citizens, is using fear and intimidation to justify their unlawful actions and deprive the Zimbabwean people of any basic human rights. Furthermore, the unconditional support received from similar oppressive regimes such as Cuba’s, promotes these abuses and crimes. Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque, in a meeting with Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, Zimbabwe's foreign minister, expressed the Cuban government’s adamant opposition to the US and European Union’s sanctions against the country. Previously, President Mugabe, named one of the ten worse ‘predators of the press’ by Reporters without Borders, had received the Jose Martí Cuban National Medal from the Cuban government.
Zimbabwe mirrors Cuba on the economic backwardness of their system as promoted by their life-long rulers' policies. The heavy Zimbabwean migration to South Africa results from an economic and political oppression copied from the Cuban model, which has caused some 2 million people to flee abroad.
ParticipatoryDemocracy.net expresses its full solidarity with democratic forces in Zimbabwe on their plight for a free society and urges all international organizations to demand the end of these actions and the celebration of free and fair elections under international supervision. The international community must use all available means to stop the cruel repression of the Zimbabwean people. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. expressed once: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”.
Participatory Democracy Cultural Initiative, Inc.
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