Zimbabwe bishop ready to face guns

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Pius Ncube, the Roman Catholic archbishop of the southern Bulawayo diocese, urged Zimbabweans to take to the streets in protest at the government’s ongoing crackdown against dissenters opposed to the government, Reuters reported.

“The biggest problem with Zimbabweans is they are cowards, myself included, but as for me I am ready to stand in front, even of blazing guns,” Ncube told a news conference.

“If only Zimbabweans are prepared to stand, so am I prepared to stand … we are not going to be bullied.”

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The problems in Zimbabwe are distressing, but I am not sure what we can do to help. At least one leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change has apparently told Western nations to butt out.

Meanwhile, Western denunciations of Mugabe drew criticism from one of the MDC’s two main factions, with factional leader Arthur Mutambara saying Africa must lead the drive for change.

“We appreciate the support from Western powers but the double standards of the West undermine our struggle,” Arthur Mutambara was quoted by South Africa’s SAPA news agency as saying in Johannesburg.

“The only ones who have the moral authority to speak out on Zimbabwe are Africans,” Mutambara said.

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[Cygnus_X1]

Cheers to Bishop Ncube, who deserves our prayers and support.

cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/03/22/zimbabwe.thursday/index.html

The problems in Zimbabwe are distressing, but I am not sure what we can do to help. At least one leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change has apparently told Western nations to butt out.

cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/03/23/zimbabwe.reut/index.html?eref=rss_world

Fools. They’re signing their own death warrants. Where do they think help is coming from, South Africa? Thabo Mbeki tacitly supports Robert Mugabe.

Mugabe is the consummate kleptocrat dictator; the only thing he knows how to do is keep himself in power. His economy and agriculture are in tatters. He’s been busy forcibly moving people (ostensibly non-ZANU-PF’ers) out into the country to starve. I fear another Cambodia or Darfur is in the offing.

I would have no problem with the U.S. or anyone else overthrowing the Mugabe government.

 

[Cygnus_X1]

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