Mugabe's History Shows Him To Be Of Duplicitous Character, A Liar & A Killer

Anyone seeing the above headline would probably cringe at the accusations against one Robert Gabriel Mugabe.

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But rather than react to this statement, let’s have a look at just how I substantiate the claims…

1) DUPLICITOUS CHARACTER

"Duplicitous" is "marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another".

Mugabe is at present crying about "illegal full economic sanctions" against Zimbabwe - when these are, in actual fact, targeted travel sanctions against Mugabe and his loyalist following. He has gone so far as to suggest that these "illegal full economic sanctions" are the real reason why the Zimbabwean economy finally collapsed… whereas in all truth and honesty, the collapse was engineered, orchestrated and choreographed by Mugabe’s ZANU PF party in an effort to maintain some hold over the Zimbabwean people.

Mugabe also has attempted to sell the "land grab" to the people of Zimbabwe and the free world as a returning of the land to the "landless blacks" - but, in reality, the land grab has been nothing more than "legalising" the forceful eviction of the white commercial farmers from their land.

In many cases, the farmlands had been purchased from the Mugabe regime - who had declared “no interest” in the land - and then they grabbed the land once the farmer had turned it into something worthwhile.

Mugabe also claims that any compensation is payable by the British government. If his government sold the land since 1980 to a willing buyer, why should the compensation payable to the farmer be paid by a foreign power - especially since his regime had been paid for that land since independence?

2) A LIAR

Mugabe has been caught out as a liar more times than we can shake a stick at. And he carries on regardless of what evidence is produced to counter his claims.

Despite being the subject of targeted travel sanctions, Mugabe is often invited to various United Nations conferences - and invariably he takes a huge entourage with him - and, inexplicably, he is given the floor at these events.

He then makes all manner of allegations - among them that the West is fomenting regime change, that the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is a front for foreign powers and that the West will not rest until he is dethroned. (Mugabe has also stated that “only God” can remove him from power.

A prime example of his heavy-handed politics is the first round of the Presidential election early last year.

The ballots had closed, and suddenly ZANU PF - a party with a vested interest in the result of that election - spirited the ballot boxes away to an unknown place where they were re-engineered to a more palatable result, and released to the public some five weeks later!

In the interim, Mugabe had his various wings of ZANU PF - war veterans, youth militia, police, army, air force - visit a reign of terror upon the MDC supporters which resulted in the death of at least 130 people.

Tsvangirai withdrew from the second round and Mugabe was ‘elected’ in a one man sham election - and sworn in with some alacrity.

The truth of the matter is that Mugabe lost the election, and that Morgan Tsvangirai is the true leader of Zimbabwe.

Although ZANU PF lost the general election, they continue to hold all the power in parliament, and are in negotiation with the real winners of the election in an attempt to hang on to power.

3) A KILLER

The Gukurahundi in Matabeleland in the early to mid-1980s saw between twenty and thirty thousand people slaughtered by the Korean-trained Fifth Brigade.

Not one member of that force, nor their commanders, have ever faced criminal charges for those heinous acts. Indeed, Mugabe has even refused to apologise to the Matabele people for that genocide. The closest he has ever come to admitting his part in one if the bloodiest events in Southern Africa, is to say that the killings were "a moment of madness".

I could probably list, which surprising detail, the deaths of MDC supporters at the hands of ZANU PF last year after the general elections - and could probably do the same for the workers and farmers slaughtered in the 'land grab'.

Again, no one has been prosecuted for these acts.

If an officer tells a subordinate to murder someone, and the subordinate does so, then the officer is as guilty as the subordinate for that killing.

The same applies to Mugabe who had previous knowledge of the brewing storm – and the vast majority of killings were ordered by his office. The fact that he is reluctant to have any of his people prosecuted for the subsequent bloodshed is evidence enough that they committed the crimes with his prior knowledge.

Mugabe is a person of duplicitous character, is a liar and a killer - as sure as if he himself pulled the trigger, manufactured the 'evidence' against his protractors and lied to the free world.

And the free world should be dealing with it instead of turning a blind eye to his subsequent activities.

Zimbabweans all deserve a voice - and that voice needs to come from the free world, since Mugabe has such a hold over the media within Zimbabwe.

The facts speak for themselves.

Robb WJ Ellis

The Bearded Man