Amnesty, Indymedia UK and Dermot Ahern On Mugabe Crisis

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Friday March 23, 2007 10:09

by C Murray

The Tatchell Opinion piece is subscription Only...

The Irish department of Foreign Affairs has instructed our South African ambassador
to go to Harare and make known Our State's displeasure at the arresting, beating up and
murder of MDC activists and opposition.

It would be a fine day if they did the same with the US ambassador, but thats
a whole other story, not to mention the one year long attempt by the EU to
elicit response from Dermot on Rendition.

We do not have an ambassador to Zimbabwe.

The twist is this. :
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/365913.html

and this:-

http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/sadc9.16165.html

and Tony Blair is rubbing up to the issue too:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article2383905

Only image of the four leaders

This morning UK indymedia published the articles available at links above.

The four named opposition leaders:-
Arthur Mutambara
Sekai Holland.
Nelson Chamisa.
Grace Kwinge.

Are still in hospitals and prisons.
South Africa has sought to use the power of Media to negatively propagandise against them.
Blair is rubbing up to the ruling party in a bid to oust Mugabe- so he will have someone
to work with.
And Dermot Ahern is sending our ambassador to protest the situation.

Amnesty has the human rights issues on:-
http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGAFR460012007

The Illustration is of Peter Tatchell who wrote yesterday in the opinon section* that
the Left has disregarded equality issues because they are perceived as 'over there'
and that Mugabe has reigned in terror for so long because he is a black
dictator killing black people.
The opinion section in the London Independent is subscription only, but am searching a link,
it's an excellent piece which brings in the issue of globalisation and left
politics.

Tatchell, got beaten up in London, some years ago, for attempting to perform
a citizen's arrest on Robert Mugabe who was visiting England at the invite
of the Blair Government.

Amnesty has called for a full investigation into the human rights abuses of the
named opposition leaders and the murder of an activist.

* London Independent Opinion Section; 22/03/07