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Agents of ‘transitional justice’ unmasked

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TRANSITIONAL Justice, in regime change language and in the context of the West’s designs for Zimbabwe, is the process by which the West plans to seek revenge against ZANU PF leaders and also obtain compensation for land lost to the Land Reform and Resettlement Programme by manipulating court processes after the regime change agenda succeeds. The West has made the decision that ZANU PF has to be removed from power and that the MDC should take over Government. Because the West is certain that an MDC government cannot survive in the presence of an intact ZANU PF, they have been conjuring up evidence of human rights abuse by the ZANU PF Government with a view to having the leadership sent to gaol through court processes to be initiated soon after regime change. Locking up ZANU PF leaders and senior security personnel is a strategy intended not only to eliminate a threat to the puppet government, but also to ensure that the ghost of liberation does not return one day to haunt the puppet rulers and their masters. The Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP), Jestina Mukoko’s organisation, was formed and funded by the United States government to be the repository of the conjured evidence against officials of the ZANU PF Government. All incidents of political violence that have occurred in the country in the last 11 or so years have been documented and placed at the ZPP where they will be processed for prosecution purposes when the time comes. By 2009, the ZPP had amassed 25 000 incident reports. Most of these reports are intended to prove allegations of human rights violations against President Mugabe and senior Government officials, the same way President Milosevic and General Mladic of former Yugoslavia were victimised in the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Western puppets that took over power in the former Yugoslavia would have faced a serious political challenge had Milosevic remained in the country, hence the need to take him to the ICC, a court which was designed to try political enemies of imperialism. Yet another organisation which was formed to ‘pursue accountability for mass atrocity or human rights abuse’ is the International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) which, regionally, is based in Cape Town, South Africa, but is headquartered in New York. The key areas of specialisation for the ICTJ are, “prosecutions, truth seeking, institutional reform, reparations, peace and justice, gender justice and memorials”, The ICTJ was formed in 2001 on account of the “rapidly emerging field of transitional justice” (a euphemism for the revolutionary land reformrelated activities in Zimbabwe at that time). The Cape Town office of the ICTJ is the African headquarters and does more than just document conjured-up evidence for post-regime change prosecutions. It trains civil society employees how to gather and document the evidence from their positions of deployment in the regime change sector. Since its establishment, the Cape Town branch has made the training of Zimbabweans a preoccupation. The few that are significant are Farai Maguwu of Centre for Research and Development (2009), Gladys Hlatshwayo of Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (2007), Yvonne Mahlunge of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (2003), Wellington Mbofana of Zimbabwe Civic Education Network (2003) and Philip Pasirayi of the National Constitutional Assembly (2005). The training takes a full year. In this situation where the West is investing in the reversal of the huge gains we have made as a nation, Zimbabweans should resist the regime change agenda with everything they have.

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