>>> ZIMBABWE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT
>> May 31, 2008
>>
>> FELLOW Zimbabweans, it is with deep regret and trepidation that we
>> announce the formation of the Zimbabwe Resistance Movement, a
>> military organisation comprising of serving and former members of the
>> Zimbabwe armed forces and security services.
>>
>> We thought it would not come to this, but unfortunately the situation
>> on the ground in Zimbabwe has forced us to take this unprecedented
>> move. We are firm believers of democracy but we are also alive to the
>> fact that the democratic means are not necessarily the only options
>> available to achieve democracy.
>>
>> We have discovered that the problem in Zimbabwe is a military one and
>> therefore, require a military solution to bring a resolution to our
>> long suffering. We acknowledge the efforts that have been made by
>> numerous political, civic and student groups to achieve a democratic
>> transition, but also note the arrogance of a few politicians,
>> generals, colonels, police chiefs and top brass of the CIO.
>>
>> It is against this background, that we, serving and former military,
>> police and CIO men and women believe that we would be doing our once
>> great nation a disservice if we do not challenge the status quo by
>> all means that are open to us, including but not limited to
>> militarily means.
>>
>> For the benefit of our geriatric leadership that is fond of
>> conspiracies, we would like to place it on record that we are a stand
>> alone organisation, with its own leadership and doctrine. We, are
>> however, not averse to alliances with like minded people, groups and
>> organizations that are committed to the removal of the evil and
>> despotic Robert Mugabe regime by any means necessary.
>>
>> WHO ARE WE?
>>
>> We are a group of serving and ex-servicemen and women who were and/
>> or are intimately involved in the operations of the Army, Air force,
>> Police, CIO and Prisons.
>>
>> We are aware of what is happening at all military, police and CIO
>> establishments such as 1 Commando, Inkomo, Magunje, Ngezi Barracks,
>> KGV1, Chikurubi, Manyame Airbase, Suri Suri, and Thornhill.
>>
>> We would not hesitate to use the confidential and classified
>> information and knowledge that we have about sensitive security and
>> military state that we have to strike fear and pandemonium into the
>> ranks of this dictatorship, which is causing untold suffering and
>> hardships on its people that it claims it fought to liberate from
>> colonialism.
>>
>> We are in everyday contact with Officers and other ranks in the armed
>> forces and security services that places us at an unassailable
>> position of knowing the strengths and weaknesses of each battalion,
>> squadron, brigade etc.
>>
>> Furthermore we have minute and intimate personal details of the
>> politicians, generals, CIO directors and police commissioners who are
>> wreaking havoc on our people. These details include, and are not
>> limited to their residential addresses, the security details, the
>> communal areas that they hail from, their farms, the schools that
>> their children attend, their itineraries and mistresses. We reserve
>> the right to strike this dictatorship where it hurts most and as they
>> have chosen to be indiscriminate in their attacks on the Zimbabwean
>> people, we are also going to be indiscriminate. History abounds with
>> cases where the people have chosen to be as indiscriminate in their
>> revenge as those who instigate the killings in the first place.
>>
>> Let those who are instigating the current wave of killings of
>> innocent children, men and women not say we were not warned when the
>> people's juggernaut exacts revenge on the perpetrators.
>>
>> We reserve the right to use any means available and necessary to get
>> rid of him and other impediments to the realisation of a full
>> democracy in our beloved country.
>>
>> We aim to cripple and suffocate the dictatorship's financial ability
>> to continue to finance the killings and we will be targeting the
>> financiers of this killing spree. To this end, we are hereby serving
>> notice to Gideon Gono, who has unashamedly abdicated from his
>> professional role, opting instead to align himself with the cause of
>> the people's suffering.
>>
>> We will exert our energies on exterminating and disrupting the
>> operations of businesses that finance the regime such as Barclays
>> Bank and those that are fronts for the people who are the cause of
>> our suffering.
>>
>> It is widely acknowledged that the dictator and his surrogates use
>> companies registered in the relatives' names as conduits of siphoning
>> money and resources from the state. It therefore does not surprise
>> anyone that today they live opulent lifestyles and have amassed huge
>> fortunes despite having no known history of primitive accumulation.
>>
>> AIM
>>
>> We are guided by our desire to free Zimbabwe from the burden of the
>> Mugabe dictatorship.
>>
>> Zimbabweans should know that the MDC won an absolute majority in the
>> June 2000 parliamentary elections; that Morgan Tsvangirai won by over
>> 500 000 votes in the March 2002 presidential elections; and that he
>> won convincingly in the March 2008 elections. They should know that
>> Mugabe is still there because of intransigent generals who are afraid
>> of Tsvangirai's pronouncements that he will establish a Truth and
>> Reconciliation Commission, if and when he assumes the reins of power.
>>
>> Zimbabweans should also know that even if Tsvangirai were to win
>> again on June 27, there is little likelihood that these generals
>> acting in cohort with Emmerson Mnangagwa are going to allow the
>> people's will to prevail, just like they have denied us since 2000.
>> Mnangagwa knows that Mugabe is terminally ill and that he will
>> handover power to him by the end of this year. We will take our fight
>> with Mnangagwa to Zambia where his family live so that he will
>> realize how traumatic it is to indiscriminately butcher defenceless
>> people for simply having exercised their democratic right.
>>
>> Some of us, as serving soldiers, police officers and prison officers,
>> we have already been denied our democratic right to choose who we
>> want to lead us as we been directed to vote in front of our
>> superiors. We would like to place it on record that we will do this
>> under protest and urge our country men and women to do to Mugabe what
>> he has denied us.
>>
>> We would like to urge our people to be extra careful and vigilant in
>> these dangerous and desperate times as there are lot of blood thirsty
>> vulnerable young people who are armed and have been freshly minted by
>> Gideon Gono, an arch accomplice in the suffering of our people.
>>
>> The people who are killing and maiming the defenceless men, women and
>> children are predominantly young recruits and war veterans who are
>> being armed and let loose to commit the greasily murders.
>>
>> MDC and human rights activists as well as lawyers should avoid
>> walking alone and patronizing the areas they normally frequent. We
>> advise that they lie low until after the elections as the current
>> abductions that are just an eye before the storm.
>>
>> Fellow Zimbabweans, there is only one outcome to expect on 28 or 20
>> June 2008, the delayed but eventual DEPARTURE of Robert Mugabe and if
>> that is not announced by the puddles who run ZEC, then that is our
>> call to ARMS.