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Adventurer
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 Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:48 am Post subject: Zimbabwe bishop ready to face guns |
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Zimbabwe bishop ready to face guns
POSTED: 1614 GMT (0014 HKT), March 22, 2007
Story Highlights� Zimbabwe bishop urges street protests; says ready to face "blazing guns"
� Angola denies claims police to be deployed in support of Zimbabwe forces
� Zimbabwe government calls for African support in face of Western "demonizing"
� U.S. ambassador to Harare says power struggle to replace Mugabe under way
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(CNN) -- A leading Zimbabwean cleric said on Thursday he was ready to face bullets in the street amid international condemnation of Robert Mugabe's regime and fears of a renewed wave of repression.
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."
Meanwhile Angola denied reports on Thursday claiming it had deployed members of a feared paramilitary police force to Zimbabwe in support of the government.
[The Holy See may not approve very much, who knows, but millions of Zimbabweans have suffered enough for this man who worships power.]
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/03/22/zimbabwe.thursday/index.html |
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nautilus
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| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:33 am Post subject: Re: Zimbabwe bishop ready to face guns |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
"The biggest problem with Zimbabweans is they are cowards
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True to an extent, they are used to being powerless in the face of big odds. A sort of historic, collective apathy under the faces of what are actually some of the most laid back, warm and innocent people on the continent. They were always dominated- first by the warring ndebeles to the south, then the colonial british, then the white rhodesians, and now by a monster of their own making (which the west surely bears much responsibility for as well).
Mugabe has snuck up on them subtly, slowly and very gradually, shoring up his political and logistical power base until suddenly he held all the cards. The forced confiscation of all weapons from the population a couple of years back was a prelude to the stranglehold he has now. The few remnant whites lost their muscle and 99% of their population after 1980, and the opposition has never had foreign backers nor any option other than passive resistance, in the face of mugabes well fed and equipped military.
All said, the US marines could probably take out Mugabes fortified compound in their lunch hour, and his supporters would desert in a heartbeat. But there appears to be no political will. |
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