Mugabe's illegitimacy to worsen human rights situation in Zimbabwe

Mugabe's illegitimacy to worsen human rights situation in Zimbabwe

Restoration of Human Rights Zimbabwe notes with apprehension the illegitimate declaration of leadership by the "new head of state" and his subsequent attendance of the African Union Heads of State Summit.

The re-emergence of the mastermind behind the continued deteriorating standards of living for the people of Zimbabwe and the orchestrator of political violence after a peaceful plebiscite sounds a death knell on the nation. More blood will be spilt, more freedoms throttled and more Zimbabweans will sink to lower levels of poverty in the bid to realise "100% empowerment and total independence."

Zimbabweans have reached a stage when they feel all out of solutions as elections have ceased to make a difference, the cost of living is on an upward surge every other second and the economy is on a freefall. At this time, when Zimbabwe is between a rock and a hard place, Africa and the rest of the world should realise that a time comes when silence is betrayal. Quiet diplomacy will not feed the millions of starving Zimbabweans who have been disadvantaged of food aid by a government dictated suspension of field operations by non-governmental organisations under the guise that food was being used as a campaign tool by the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T). Leaders the world over should embrace the mandates of their conscience, consider the lives of the millions in Zimbabwe who have stopped believing in what has become an unjust system and intervene.
ROHR-Zimbabwe calls for the refusal by the African Union, SADC and the rest of the international community to recognise the outcome of the recent sham and to isolate the winner of the one man race run on June 27. We recommend that Africa come together and impose travel bans on the proclaimed winner of the facade of an election run on 27 June as a means of illegitimating his self imposed authority.

At the heart of ROHR-Zimbabwe is the respect of every person's fundamental rights, which have so been neglected in the last eight years as a raging war has been waged by the government on its own people. Peace justice and freedom must soon be deposited on the shore of every Zimbabwean's life.
As Martin Luther King Junior once said, when the issues at hand seem as perplexed as they do in the case of this dreadful conflict, we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty; but we must move on.