Zimbabwe youth depressed by political violence

YOUTH Forum learnt with great shock the callous murder of two prominent MDCactivists Musoja Kauzani and Beta Chokururama in Murewa by pro-ZANU PF militia.

The two mentioned comrades were also active members of Youth Forum. Equally disturbing is the abduction of Tonderai Ndira, a Mabvuku based youth activist who was nabbed at gunpoint by 10 suspected ZANU PF militia last week.

There are also hundreds of youths and Zimbabweans in general who suffered the same fate and many who are on the junta’s target list. The mentioned were indeed inspiring and fearless comrades in the fight for a democratic Zimbabwe and it was really a blow to all the pro-democratic youths fighting against Robert Mugabe and his tyrannical ZANU PF party.

Their death comes at a time when ZANU PF is intensifying its onslaught on opposition activists as well as innocent civilians, their crime, having voted overwhelmingly for the opposition in the March 29 elections.

We continue to witness gross violations of human rights on a day-to-day basis. This is despite the fact that Mbeki and others of his ilk have blatantly stated that there is no crisis in Zimbabwe. As young people we are gravely concerned that people like Mbeki can choose to ignore the plight of his Zimbabwean neighbours because he has chosen to take sides with the ageing dictator. Mbeki should not be so naïve as to think that he can prop up the dictatorship forever. History has taught us well that no dictatorship can ever prevail against the will of the people no matter how brutal it can be.

We encourage all the youths to continue soldiering on despite these efforts to silence them in their bid to liberate this country. Mugabe should be reminded that Smith, Idi Amini, Kamuzu Banda, Mobutu Seseko, Adolf Hitler, Bennito Mussolini and many other dictators used the same brutal methods to silence the masses, which were clamouring for freedom.

What disillusions us is the fact that during the liberation struggle people were fighting for one man one vote, the same principle which Mugabe is denying the people of Zimbabwe, given that the reason which he is persecuting people for is that Morgan Tsvangirai won convincingly against him despite his unfair advantage over the opposition. It is a public secret that the retributions which the innocent civilians of Zimbabwe are facing at the hands of Mugabe and his followers are meant to intimidate the electorate ahead of a presidential runoff election scheduled for June 27 which ZANU PF knows it will lose overwhelmingly if the election is free and fair.

Youth Forum condemns these satanic acts being perpetrated by ZANU PF and takes this opportunity to encourage all Zimbabweans not to lose hope since these are the last kicks of a dying regime. Despite its diabolic and murderous quest to remain in power the regime will never prevail and history has it that dictatorship cannot thrive forever no matter how its perpetrators fight to maintain the status quo. Mugabe’s days are numbered, so are those for his blind followers.

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