TAKEN in the context of the regime change onslaught, the present disturbing spate of abductions should not just be assessed at face value.
The West, without any verification, seems to have done just that.
Through their diplomats, Western governments have been quick to blame the ZANU PF Government for the abductions.
This is after little has been done to establish the circumstances and possible motives of the abductions.
The chairperson of the National Peace Trust (NPT), Sekai Holland, has an important observation which these Western diplomats must pause to examine:
“Some of these statements border on falsehoods, misinformation and outright malice…”
All else seems to be immaterial as long as a scapegoat in the form of a governing party that has transformed itself from being a liberation movement is identified.
This warped thinking has to be revised.
Elsewhere in this edition, we have personal accounts of these abductions.
Curiously though, accounts of the supposed victims’ ordeals, which have been carried out by sections of our local media, are very different from what they experienced.
This means somewhere along the line, the stories have been doctored.
It is indeed ironic that the MDC Alliance, the blue-eyed boy of the West, is implicated.
This was either through vengeful attacks on targeted individuals or stage-managing the abductions with the intention of making state security agents look involved.
We have reason to believe the involvement of the MDC Alliance, especially at this time.
For normally their strategy is to strike when there is a gathering of world leaders somewhere to ensure maximum impact.
It is not by accident that the present spate of abductions coincides with the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) currently being held in Japan.
Obviously, to the merriment of the regime change advocates, no investor would like to pour money in a country where people are being abducted and tortured willy-nilly.
The 74th session of the UN General Assembly is due on September 17.
This is even a more delicious assembly of world leaders where to present a picture of Zimbabwe as a rogue state is ideal.
This will, no doubt, justify the slotting of Zimbabwe on the UN agenda.
They did it recently when SADC heads were meeting in Tanzania when they unsuccessfully tried to organise protests, which were likely to turn violent.
Thank heavens, the chicanery of the MDC Alliance, on both fronts, has been exposed.
Their belief that their ploy would be swallowed, hook, line and sinker, has subsequently dismally failed.
The failed protest strategy and the revelation that the MDC Alliance leaders are the architects of this ‘abduction’ strategy must have left leaders of this Western-created surrogate party with egg on their faces.
But these regime change advocates will never take failure lying down.
It will be foolhardy on the part of the relevant authorities to be lulled into believing that the regime change planners have been cornered into submission.
What is worth noting, however, as we repeat once more, is the theory that the overriding function of a state is to maintain law and order.
Hollow cries by self-proclaimed champions of human rights should never be allowed to supersede this paramount obligation.