THE grandstanding of the French ambassador and their European relatives on the issue a certain ‘missing’ Itai Dzamara is a classic example of the hypocrisy of the former colonisers whose history is inundated with gross injustices.
Why should anyone allow the French to cast doubt on the integrity of the state of Zimbabwe on the issue of Dzamara?
The Government of Zimbabwe is led by a revolutionary party which embodies the two liberation movements which mobilised the family of Zimbabwe to fight an evil bandit system which had reduced Zimbabweans to beggars and third-class citizens without political, economic, and social rights in the land of their birth.
They fought and defeated the British armed robbers and their inhuman system and after that extended the hand of reconciliation to their former slave masters.
Today, in a Zimbabwe formerly devastated by an evil British occupation force, people of British and European descent live as equal citizens, no-one has asked them to pay for their sins and or that of their forefathers.
These are real credentials, this is the foundation on which the state of Zimbabwe is built.
For this reason, the grandstanding of the French and their European relatives is preposterous.
The French are guilty of the most heinous crimes against Africans from the days of slavery to date.
When Sekou Toure of Guinea decided to break away from France, the French’s response was unequivocal.
“Three thousand French left the country, taking their property and destroying anything which could not be moved: schools, nurseries, public administration buildings were crumbled, cars, books, medicines, research institute instruments, tractors were crushed and sabotaged, horses, cows were killed and food in warehouses was burned or poisoned.”
That’s the price anyone who wanted to stop being enslaved by the French paid.
Sylvanus Olympia, the first President of Togo, in 1963 tried to get out of the French money economy by printing his own currency.
The French killed him three days after he started printing his own currency.
On June 30 1962, the French removed the first Malian President by engineering a coup.
He had rejected being part of the French colonial currency the FCFA and they disposed of him.
Obviously the French are still revelling in their successes at permanently suppressing and exploiting their former colonies for them to still hope to unseat President Robert Mugabe who can never behave like a colonial puppet.
The French can never be in favour of Zimbabwe and its policies of land reform, indigenisation and empowerment; all those policies that are for the economic independence of the Africans, because they cannot survive without looting Africa.
In the words of their own Presidents Chirac and Mitterrand they attest this:
“Without Africa, France will slide down into the rank of a third (world) power.” – (Former President Jacques Chirac — 2008).
And:
“Without Africa, France will have no history in the 21st century.” (Francois Mitterrand, 1957).
To date, 14 of France’s former colonies, under duress from France, keep 85 percent of their reserves in the French Central Bank under the control of the French Minister of Finance.
To date French former colonies still have to pay colonial debt for the infrastructure developed during the colonial period.
The French are a classic case of the psyche of the oppressor.
Africans lost labour, capital and natural resources to France during the colonial era.
France owes its former colonies reparations, but instead of paying up, it has manipulated the situation so that it seems the Africans are indebted to France.
The French should be paying reparations to the African countries for what they cost them in pain, labour, capital and natural resources during slavery and colonialism, instead, the Africans are perpetually the cow that is milked to feed France.
Apart from the 500 billion Francs foreign reserves of the former colonies which it keeps in its Central Bank, France also has the right of first refusal for any natural resources sold by its former colonies, they have first priority in terms of award of government contracts even if the Africans could get better deals elsewhere.
In addition, it has the legal right to intervene militarily in the former colonies.
With such a history, it is very easy to understand why the French capitalise on the ‘story’ of Dzamara to justify the plot they long hatched together with their European relatives to remove President Mugabe for his resolute stand that Zimbabwe and all that is in it belongs to Zimbabweans.
The leopard does not change its spots and true to their tradition of barbarism, in 2011, the French played a leading role in the NATO coalition demolition of Libya during which they murdered a lawfully elected head of state, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, an illustrious son of Africa.
The destruction of Libya which they orchestrated and perpetrated is business as usual and this is the way they have always related with Africa.
Libya is in shambles.
The shameless murder of a legitimate head of state is something they gloat over.
The looting of Libya’s oil is their celebrated achievement, the total destruction and disruption of normal life in Libya, the destitution to which millions of Libyans have been reduced, the armed banditry that characterises life in Libya today, the total chaos that reigns in Libya today as a result of unprovoked French and European aggression is something the French and their European relatives have no compunction about.
The fact that French and European children sleep peacefully, wake up and are assured of security and all comforts of life, that they can expect normal life, to the French and their European relatives is the norm, and to them it is also the norm; that Libyan children know no peace, and have not known peace for years now, that these children are haunted continuously by the trauma of losing parents, siblings, relatives, friends, that their lives are completely unpredictable, that they no longer have food, shelter, medicine; about all this, the holier than thou French blink no eyelid.
Why then shed crocodile tears over Dzamara?
“Where is Dzamara?” Perhaps we should ask the French.
Given their track record of evil and cruelty against Africans from the days of slavery through colonial times to date, they are likely to know where Dzamara is.
Since when do murderers get attested to the bench?
We are liberators not criminals.
Where did the French wash their hands?
Were it possible for such to be done, the rivers would turn redder than those of Egypt during the reign of Ramses.
Dr Mahamba is a war veteran and holds a PhD from Havard University. She is currently doing consultancy work.