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"Mr President, in the Zimbabwe of President Mugabe, there are terrible things happening every day. Just listen to this: 'The game we are going to play needs music,' the Zimbabwean police agent told the 12-year-old girl at 10 o’clock at night. But when he threw a mattress on the ground, it became clear that he had something other than a game in mind. For the next four hours, the girl’s mother and her nine-year-old and seven-year-old sisters were forced to continuously sing the praises of Robert Mugabe and watch while the undernourished Dora was raped by a gang of five so-called ‘war veterans’ and the policeman behind the shack until 2.30 in the morning. 'This is the punishment for those who want to sell the country to Tony Blair and the whites,' they screamed at the terrified girl. Dora was abused because her absent father was an ordinary supporter of the opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change.
Unfortunately, the abovementioned tragedy (see the
of 25 August) was not an isolated incident. Dora is just one of hundreds of young girls raped as part of a state campaign of systematic political purging of the population. Not to mention the approximately 50 militia camps where President Mugabe’s opponents are locked up and tortured for ‘re-education’, but which are also increasingly being used as rape camps.
Meanwhile, President Mugabe does not seem to be in the least ashamed of this reign of terror. Quite the opposite. For example, take his outrageous performance at the UN Summit in Johannesburg, where this self-made pariah passed himself off as a victim of colonialism who wanted to free his ‘occupied country’ from ‘British colonialism’. The fact that he is allowing half of his 12 million compatriots to starve on account of this non-argument does not bother him in the least.
Namibian President Nujoma’s active support for President Mugabe and the deafening silence from President Mbeki, the great initiator of the NEPAD programme, which is all about rulers’ responsibilities towards the ruled, is worrying.
In order to prevent the 'oil slick effect', I call on the Council and Commission to continue to give the crisis in Zimbabwe political priority. Because the fact that according to today’s
only the US Secretary of State expressly criticised Mr Mugabe’s reign of terror in the plenary assembly at Johannesburg hurt me personally a great deal. Was Europe really silent on this?"@en1
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