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Zimbabwe : Strident MDC threatens to unleash war

brian | 07.06.2008 01:51 | Social Struggles | World

This just in. the MDC has threatened to unleash war IF they dont win the elections...So desperate are they to get into power, they are prepared to destroy the country.

Lest we forget:

'Arthur Mutambara, the leader of one faction of Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the MDC, and one of the principals in the Save Zimbabwe Campaign that's at the centre of a storm of controversy over the Mugabe government's crackdown on opposition, boasted a year ago that he was "going to remove Robert Mugabe, I promise you, with every tool at my disposal." (1)

Educated at Oxford, the former management consultant with McKinsey & Co. was asked in early 2006 whether "his plans might include a Ukrainian-style mass mobilization of opponents of Mugabe's regime." (2)

"We're going to use every tool we can get to dislodge this regime," he replied. "We're not going to rule out or in anything the sky's the limit." (3)
etc
 http://www.counterpunch.org/gowans03232007.html


Biti warns of war break out in Zimbabwe
Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:01:00 +0000
THE opposition Movement for Democratic Change party led by Morgan Tsvangirai (MDC-T) party on Friday called for dialogue with President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu PF party on a government of national unity and warned that unless this happens a war might break out in Zimbabwe after the run-off election.
Floyd Nkomo





Biti warns of war break out in Zimbabwe


THE opposition Movement for Democratic Change party led by Morgan Tsvangirai (MDC-T) party on Friday called for dialogue with President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu PF party on a government of national unity and warned that unless this happens a war might break out in Zimbabwe after the run-off election.





The Secretary General of the MDC-T party, who used a characteristic mixture of toned down conciliatory and hard-line language, said: “It is in the best interest of the Zimbabwean people to talk. We're ready to dialogue,” MDC Secretary-General Tendai Biti told a debate on Zimbabwe at the World Economic Forum which opened in Cape Town yesterday.



He was quoted by The Times newspaper of South Africa saying, “The regime is increasing the decibels of insanity,” referring to the detention of Morgan Tsvangirai at a roadblock in the second city of Bulawayo.
etc
 http://www.talkzimbabwe.com/news/117/ARTICLE/2628/2008-06-07.html

brian

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Government run media dislikes opposition...news at 11

07.06.2008 10:43

Wow the state run media are publishing stories that put the opposition in a bad light.

Rioting_pacifist
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WOW, guess what, the 'Govt media' is right

08.06.2008 04:32

Under what rock have you spent the last 10 years. The MDC is a creation of western govts, its purpose is to take control of Zimbabwe and privatise the economy:


' The establishment of a new opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), in September 1999, found instant support from Western leaders. Significant funding from Western sources enabled the party to rapidly grow to the point where it won 57 out of 120 seats in the June 24-25 2000 parliamentary election, less than one year after its creation. Ostensibly based in the labor movement, the program of MDC reads like a call for a return to ESAP. A policy paper issued by the party spelled out its plans for privatization. Upon taking power, the party plans to appoint a "fund manager to dispose of government-owned shares in publicly quoted companies." The boards of all public enterprises would be "reconstituted," and the new boards would be "required to privatize their enterprises within specified timetables...with an overall target of privatizing all designated parastatals [public companies] within two years." The interests of Western capital would not be ignored. "In areas where a high level of technical skill is required, foreign strategic investors will be encouraged to bid for a majority stake in the enterprises being privatized." A primary principle of the program would be that "all sales of major state assets will be conducted through open, international [that is, Western], competitive bidding." In order to counter opposition from workers made redundant, the National Privatization and Procurement Agency would be instructed to "carry out public awareness campaigns regarding the privatization program in order to generate public awareness and support for the exercise." Implementation of its program, the MDC feels, will mean "that foreign direct investment will take place on a substantial scale." (10) As a further incentive for Western investors, the MDC plans to review income and corporate tax levels "for regional competitiveness." (11)

The MDC appointed an official of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries, Eddie Cross, as its Secretary of Economic Affairs. In a speech delivered shortly after his appointment, Cross articulated the MDC economic plan. "First of all, we believe in the free market. We do not support price control. We do not support government interfering in the way people manage their lives. We are in favor of reduced levels of taxation. We are going to fast track privatization. All fifty government parastatals will be privatized within a two-year frame, but we are going far beyond that. We are going to privatize many of the functions of government. We are going to privatize the Central Statistics Office. We are going to privatize virtually the entire school delivery system. And you know, we have looked at the numbers and we think we can get government employment down from about 300,000 at the present time to about 75,000 in five years." (12)
 http://www.swans.com/library/art8/elich004.html

This is also the view of the 'govt media'.

brian


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