HARARE - If Zanu (PF) insists on its demand for the MDC to denounce so-called sanctions imposed on its officials by the international community they are going to call for their replacement with warrants of arrests, MDC Director of Security, Kisimusi Ndhlamini, said.Zanu (PF) youths early this month marched in the city centre and gave MDC up to March 24 to engage the West in the lifting of targeted measures imposed on its senior officials.
“As a response to that call we have decided to embark on a world wide campaign demanding that those who committed crimes against human right be given warrants of arrests and tried in the international court of justice.
“Sanctions were imposed as a result of human rights abuses. We have complained that those who committed such crimes be arrested and nothing has happened.
We are saying Zanu (PF) should respect the laws of the land in dealing with issues. We are worried because they are moving around threatening our party members with the June 27, 2000 atrocities if sanctions are not lifted by March 24. We know that they want to lure us in to their traps of violence and I want to say we won’t fall into that trap. Instead we go legal if they want to do anything that threatens us,” said Ndhlamini
More than 200 MDC supporters were killed in 2008 by state-sponsored terrorists. The perpetrators, who include soldiers and state security agents, are still freely walking in the streets despite the MDC’s calls for their arrests.
Civic organizations have produced a number of documents exposing human rights abuses that occurred during that time. A recent report of that nature was launched last week by Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition. It was entitled Cries from Goromonzi: Inside Zimbabwe’s Torture Chambers.
Zanu (PF) has accused MDC of calling for so-called sanctions which resulted in more than 200 of its members having their international investments frozen. MDC rejects than allegation, arguing that the targeted sanctions were a reaction by the West to human, and property rights abuses that occurred in 2000.
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