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By Blackman Ngoro
Afro Rights Committee in Asia completely dissociates itself from the plan to grant Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe a blanket amnesty for all the torture, deaths, killings, starvation, sufferings he put the inncocent citizens of Zimbabwe to in his quest to remain in power.
Even the whole idea of letting him escape with the title Founding Father is abhorrent. A father doesn't do what he has been doing, let alone a founding one.
He is a megalomaniac, to say the very least. The Online Etymology Dictionary quotes Bertrand Russel as defining a megalomaniac in the following terms:
The megalomaniac differs from the narcisist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
Whether Mugabe is a lunatic or a great man is a question the reader may ask and answer for himself or herself.
Certainly in the beginning he was great but later...who knows?
We at Afro Rights Committee in Asia are concerned that Mugabe and his cronies want to enjoy the rest of their lives in luxury after condemning the lives of ordinary citizens to abject poverty simply because their power was threatened.
Are we going to see a situation where their wealth will be redistributed and used to compensate individuals whose lives they ruined through their use of violence and degenerate policies?
Will their wealth be used to build citizens' houses they burnt down, provide plastic limbs for citizens whose body parts they cut or disfigured? Will their extreme wealths be used to provide counselling for the torture they put millions of people to?
Their wealths will be left alone? Thats not a deal.
We condemn in the strongest terms any attempt to appease the dictator who brought the country to its knees.
We instead recommend that he and his cronies be taken to the International Criminal Court and face justice for crimes against humanity.
That way most of those maimed and are still alive, may feel justice was done and those already buried may rest in peace.
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