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Guyana must join in denouncing this dictatorship

Jun 26, 2008 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
Zimbabwe is supposed to have an election this week to choose a President – a run off after officially the opposition failed to get the required 50% in the first round of the contest in March.

The opposition candidate has wisely pulled out of the second round of the race. The election will not serve any purpose because the country’s dictator, Robert Mugabe, has said he will not lose the election and if he loses he will not give up power.

Mugabe is a tyrant and as respected commentator Gwynne Dyer penned, the small gang that runs the government in tandem with the army is a group of brazen thieves who will do anything to retain power.

The opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, is right to withdraw from the contest otherwise he gives legitimacy to fraud as the opposition used to do in Guyana during the era of fraudulent elections from 1968 to 1992.

The international community now has justifiable reasons to take tougher measures against Mugabe and his cronies and not stand by and watch as they did when Forbes Burnham brutalized Guyanese. Guyana should call for sanctions against Mugabe.

Reports out of Zimbabwe say that Tsvangirai has sought refuge in the Dutch Embassy. Tsvangirai was arrested on numerous occasions and prevented from campaigning.

Mugabe means business against opponents. He unleashes the thugs against anyone suspected of fraternizing with the opposition. The security forces are vigilant, well-armed and brutal.
More than 60 opposition supporters have been arrested this week.

Thousands of Tsvangirai’s supporters have been kidnapped and tortured by Mugabe’s thugs since the campaign started, and 86 have been murdered already. People are being savagely mauled.

Tsvangirai said he withdrew from the race because he did not want more people to be maimed by Mugabe’s thugs and has appealed for an end to the violence.

He is right that there’s no point in getting people killed when there’s no hope of a fair vote. Mugabe is determined not to let the opposition win, regardless of what the voters do. Mugabe already rigged last March’s first round of the election which observers say Tsvangirai won. “Only God can remove me,” Mugabe said recently.
Vishnu Bisram

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