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"It is in the nature of things that the extreme right should put forward crass arguments to defend the right of 4 500 landowners of European origin to monopolise the best land in Zimbabwe.
Yet the fact that the joint motion for a resolution calls for law and order to be enforced and condemns ‘the illegal occupations’ and accompanying violence is pure hypocrisy.
We might have more faith in the sincerity of the authors of this motion in ‘deploring the recent murders, beatings and intimidation associated with the …occupation’ if they at least deigned to recall the past massacres in which a handful of colonists dispossessed the indigenous population of its land and the decades of colonial violence and apartheid used to preserve this situation.
The Mugabe regime is authoritarian and corrupt. Yet neither this authoritarianism nor this corruption bothered the defenders of the wealthy minority and the old colonial power until this authoritarianism was used to attack their interests and privileges.
We have therefore not only voted against this motion but must also denounce the cynicism and hypocrisy of those who defend the interests of the privileged whites in Zimbabwe.
It will be up to the poor population of this country to settle its account with Mugabe and his regime, and certainly not the political servants of those who have grown rich by pillaging this country."@en1
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