What's Left
April 27, 2008
Expressions of imperialism within Zimbabwe
By Stephen Gowans
Zimbabwe's Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Patrick
Chinamasa on Friday denounced the US and Britain for their interference in
Zimbabwe's elections. At the same time, he decried the Morgan Tsvangirai
faction of the main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change
(MDC-T), and its civil society partner, the Zimbabwe Election Sup****t
Network (ZESN), as being part of a US and British program to reverse the
gains of Zimbabwe's national liberation struggle.
"It is no secret that the US and the British have poured in large sums of
money behind the MDC-T's sustained demonization campaign," Chinamasa said.
"Sanctions against Zimbabwe (were intensified) just before the elections,"
while "large sums of money" were poured into Zimbabwe "by the British and
Americans to bribe people to vote against President Mugabe." (2)
The goal, Chinamasa continued, is to "render the country ungovernable in
order to justify external intervention to reverse the gains of the land
reform program."
The justice minister went on to describe opposition leader Morgan
Tsvangirai
and his MDC "for what they are - an Anglo-American project designed to
defeat and reverse the gains of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, to
undermine
the will of the Zimbabwean electorate and to return the nation to the dark
days of white domination."
The minister also described the ZESN as "an American-sponsored civil
society
appendage of the MDC-T."
Were they re****ted in the West, it would be fa****onable to sneer at
Chinamasa's accusations as lies told to justify a crackdown on the
opposition. But, predictably, they haven't been. For anyone who's
following
closely, however, the minister's charges hardly ring false.
Continued at
http://gowans.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/expressions-of-imperialism-within-zimbabwe/
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