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This week, Mugabe (together with an 80-person entourage) is at the United Nations Headquarters in new York, and was given the floor…
Why is it that international bodies have this penchant for inviting mass-murderers to their summits, and giving them the floor so that they can take a swing at the West?
With the information to hand, the UN has enough to effect an arrest upon Mugabe and his senior apologists for crimes against humanity, and, now that the Gukurahundi has been reclassified, genocide.
But nothing will happen and Mugabe will be tolerated in their midst and then go home a free man.
"Genocide Watch President Gregory Stanton has called for the creation of a special Tribunal, composed of UN and Zimbabwean officials, to try Mugabe and his Generals on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
"We call upon the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to conduct a full investigation of the Gukurahundi, with the aim of establishing a mixed UN-Zimbabwean Tribunal to put Mugabe and his co-perpetrators on trial for their crimes," Stanton told The Zimbabwean.
Stanton argues that the crimes qualify as genocide as they were conducted by the exclusively Shona 5th Brigade and targeted the ethnic Ndebele people. However, the massacres occurred before the establishment of the International Criminal Court and thus the tribunal lacks jurisdiction. However, the UN Security Council can still refer the matter to the ICC.
Stanton pointed out that council had previously referred the Darfur situation to the ICC, with the result that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was indicted for genocide."
Oh come on! Do they really think that Mugabe and Company will ever be held answerable for the Gukurahundi?
There is enough documentation for The Hague to institute legal proceedings against Mugabe, but, for some reason, the powers that be are reluctant to take any action whatsoever...
"They think they have gotten away with mass murder. It is time to end such impunity in Zimbabwe," Stanton said.
In the early 1980s, in his role as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Mugabe ordered the Fifth Brigade to suppress resistance in the volatile Matabeleland regions.
Acting on his orders, the Brigade shot, burned and beat an estimated 20000 civilians to death, including women and children. Thousands more disappeared or were displaced by the violence.
Zimbabwe’s current government includes ministers and top army officials implicated in the atrocities. They are suspected of clinging to power in order to avoid prosecution.
Genocide Watch has named Defence Minister Sydney Sekeramayi, Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander Constantine Chiwenga and Air Force commander Perence Shiri as being amongst the offenders.
Mugabe has described the killings as an "act of madness", while at the same time denying culpability and refusing to formally apologise. In the hope of preserving a delicate Unity Accord that he co-signed with the late Joshua Nkomo in 1987, the ailing leader has apparently chosen to sweep the massacres under the carpet."
Even if Mugabe goes to his grave without facing any punishment, the world needs to be aware that the legacy that he leaves behind is not one as 'liberator' but a a mass-murderer. Granted, he may not have held the rifle that fired the fatal shots, but those that did were acting under his express command.
Robb WJ Ellis
The Bearded Man
