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Kabir Njaay <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:00:10 +0200
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Mr Sanneh,

I guess you are free to go and remove Mugabe at your convenience since you
are so passionate about it!

I don't know where you got your Black against White from but what
progressive Africans have been saying all along it that the conflict is
about the Land Reform. It is Britain and Tony Blair and now Gordon Brown
that made it a Black against White issue when they mobilised their White
Breathen all over the world to strangulate Zimbabwe.

Kabir.


On 9/24/07, ABDOUKARIM SANNEH <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Kabir
> Thanks for the forward. The situation in Zimbabwe is also view by
> so-called African liberationist as Black against white or western
> imperlialism. Damn it, I do not subscribe that sensational views any more.
> Mugage should go period and so is Africa do away with all forms of
> dictatorship. It is a fact that western interest in Zimbabwe is narrow their
> commitment other countries facing a similar problem like Zimbabwe. What is
> that problem corrupt, human rights violation, state criminalisation, lack of
> rule of law and democracy, deapair and hopelessness. The problem in Zimbabwe
> is far from racism. With human suffering in the name of liberation in that
> country is the classical case of intellectual dishonest one cannot imagine.
>
> Kabir Njaay <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Zimbabwe: Outrage Intensifies Over Brown's Threat
>
> Posted: Saturday, September 22, 2007
>
> By Bulawayo Bureau
>
> September 22, 2007
>
> The Herald
>
> 'Arm-twisting not way to solve Zim's challenges' CONDEMNATION of British
> Prime Minister Gordon Brown over his threat to boycott the Euro-Africa
> Summit if President Mugabe attends intensified yesterday.
>
> Amid growing international consensus that the conference must go ahead
> even without Britain, the Pan-African Parliament said Mr Brown should desist
> from behaving like an overlord.
>
> In remarks that received worldwide coverage yesterday, Dr Gertrude
> Mongella, the Tanzanian president of the Pan-African Parliament, said
> "arm-twisting" was not the way to solve Zimbabwe's challenges.
>
> Her comments reflect the determination of the African Union to go ahead as
> planned and invite President Mugabe to the Euro-Africa summit in Lisbon,
> Portugal, in December.
>
> Dr Mongella, attending a conference with Socialist Members of the European
> Parliament in Brussels, has made it clear that African solidarity might
> undermine Mr Brown's "him-or-me" challenge to the summit.
>
> "We do know there are some problems (in Zimbabwe), but if somebody wants
> to arm-twist Zimbabwe, that's not the best way to solve the problems," she
> said.
>
> "I think this is again another way of manipulating Africa. Zimbabwe is a
> nation which got independence. I think in the developed countries there are
> so many countries doing things which not all of us subscribe to - we have
> seen the Iraq war, not everyone accepts what is being done in Iraq."
>
> Dr Mongella urged all African and European leaders to go to the summit -
> including Mr Brown - to join the talks to "meet, develop a very committed
> dialogue to solve problems, rather than threatening each other by going or
> not going".
>
> She said dialogue must be pursued to resolve any disputes.
>
> "I think if we want to move in the right direction, with the African way
> of doing things, you discuss things under a tree till you agree. So if
> somebody does not come under a tree to discuss, that is not the African way
> of doing things."
>
> Mr Brown was also condemned by Zimbabwe's Ambassador to the United
> Nations, Mr Boniface Chidyausiku, who said the prime minister had no right
> to dictate who should be at the summit or not.
>
> Mr Chidyausiku said President Mugabe had a sovereign right, like all other
> African heads of state, to attend the Lisbon summit, adding that bigger
> issues affecting Africa should be prioritised.
>
> Mr Chidyausiku's remarks follow almost similar sentiments by Portuguese EU
> legislator Mr Paolo Casaca and the Southern African Development Community
> chairman, President Levy Mwanawasa of Zambia, on Thursday.
>
> President Mwanawasa even countered Mr Brown with his own threat, saying if
> President Mugabe is barred from attending the summit, Zambia and probably
> other African leaders would not go to Lisbon.
>
> Mr Louis Michel, the EU Commissioner for Aid and Development, signalled Mr
> Brown's growing isolation, saying that one person cannot scuttle a key
> summit between two continents.
>
> "We think that a single individual case cannot take as hostage the
> relations between two continents," said Mr Michel.
>
> He added that the European Commission would want the summit to go ahead
> regardless of Mr Brown's threat.
>
> Writing in a British newspaper, The Independent, on Thursday, Mr Brown
> provoked sharp international criticism when he said he would boycott the
> Portugal summit - the first since 2000 - if President Mugabe attends.
>
> Mr Brown, like his predecessor Mr Tony Blair, claimed that the Government
> had presided over the prevailing economic challenges, ignoring the impact of
> illegal EU and American sanctions.
>
> He said the EU's five-year visa ban on President Mugabe must be enforced
> to ensure that he does not travel to Portugal.
>
> But Mr Michel said the ban does not apply to international meetings.
>
> "I expect it is possible to have a compromise, but if there is no
> compromise, what can you do? The only option I cannot accept is suppressing
> the summit," he said.
>
> Mr Brown, who assumed office in June, is said to base his foreign policy
> on a series of anti-Zimbabwe reports aired by several British media outlets,
> including the BBC and ITV News
>
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