Darfur and Harare
Simple question:
Why has the western nations and the EU imposed some crippling sanctions and travel bans to the Zimbabwean government that has brought our economy to its knees, more like a spiral to an abyss grave of unfathomed depth, for bad governance and human rights violations when on the other hand, in the face of the whole world - which by the way includes the western nations and the EU that need not be named, the Sudanese government has aided the Janjaweed arab militia to displace and maime millions of black africans without much say about it? In my simple analysis, there is a huge inconsistency from the same bodies of governments that make such different decisions for roughly the same crimes. By pure body count, Darfur atrocities are by far more grievious and at a bibilical scale than that in Zimbabwe. The original cause for both catastrophes is roughly the same - a rising desperation and scramble for fertility in the context of each nations most fertile natural resources largly in the form farm lands, by previously well co-existed ethnic groups. Of course there are different socio-econo political connotataions that punctuate each situation. The question is, why should the "world police"treat differently the same crimes from two different criminals? In some sense, the more gruesome criminal has got preferential treatment! How genocidal should the situation in Zimbabwe be for all the charges to be droped? One wonders what is really behind some world decisions, one wonders what kind of Zimbabwe we would have if we had oil. Granted, the masses in Zimbabwe do not condone the current political policies in place but the economic sanctions have done nothing but massacre and butcher the average citizen. The victims are always the innocent ones, as is the case with both Zimbabwe and Sudan. Meanwhile, both Sudan and Zimbabwe have found oriental sanctuaries in the name of China and Russia, the latter more directed to Sudan's arms deal. If they really cared for Zimbabwe and Darfur, they should lift economic sanctions and travels bans off Zimbabwe where the ordinary man and women has suffered, or moreso impose the heaviest sacntions ever seen in history on Sudan and its "allies", China and Russia. The latter option is probably impossible, because how heavy can sanctions get for them to be worse than those imposed on Zimbabwe? Think about this, if some non-Western, non-EU powerful nation backed Zimbabwe for any reason, perhaps there would have never been sactions in the first place.
So God help us find oil in Zimbabwe.
Just another food for thought.
Evertone Bhekubukhosi Mothusi Siwela
Why has the western nations and the EU imposed some crippling sanctions and travel bans to the Zimbabwean government that has brought our economy to its knees, more like a spiral to an abyss grave of unfathomed depth, for bad governance and human rights violations when on the other hand, in the face of the whole world - which by the way includes the western nations and the EU that need not be named, the Sudanese government has aided the Janjaweed arab militia to displace and maime millions of black africans without much say about it? In my simple analysis, there is a huge inconsistency from the same bodies of governments that make such different decisions for roughly the same crimes. By pure body count, Darfur atrocities are by far more grievious and at a bibilical scale than that in Zimbabwe. The original cause for both catastrophes is roughly the same - a rising desperation and scramble for fertility in the context of each nations most fertile natural resources largly in the form farm lands, by previously well co-existed ethnic groups. Of course there are different socio-econo political connotataions that punctuate each situation. The question is, why should the "world police"treat differently the same crimes from two different criminals? In some sense, the more gruesome criminal has got preferential treatment! How genocidal should the situation in Zimbabwe be for all the charges to be droped? One wonders what is really behind some world decisions, one wonders what kind of Zimbabwe we would have if we had oil. Granted, the masses in Zimbabwe do not condone the current political policies in place but the economic sanctions have done nothing but massacre and butcher the average citizen. The victims are always the innocent ones, as is the case with both Zimbabwe and Sudan. Meanwhile, both Sudan and Zimbabwe have found oriental sanctuaries in the name of China and Russia, the latter more directed to Sudan's arms deal. If they really cared for Zimbabwe and Darfur, they should lift economic sanctions and travels bans off Zimbabwe where the ordinary man and women has suffered, or moreso impose the heaviest sacntions ever seen in history on Sudan and its "allies", China and Russia. The latter option is probably impossible, because how heavy can sanctions get for them to be worse than those imposed on Zimbabwe? Think about this, if some non-Western, non-EU powerful nation backed Zimbabwe for any reason, perhaps there would have never been sactions in the first place.
So God help us find oil in Zimbabwe.
Just another food for thought.
Evertone Bhekubukhosi Mothusi Siwela
posted by TONE at 7:16 PM
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