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Zimbabwe Posted: Sunday, January 13, 2002 www.jamaicaobserver.com THERE has been an all-out press attack on President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe for the last few years. The attacks have been vicious, unbalanced and unwarranted. Reading the reports, one would say the attacks were because President Mugabe was resisting democratic change and he wants to take land from whites unjustifiably. If the critics of the president were asked the question, "Are you trying to justify that the white people are entitled to the land which was robbed by their foreparents from the indigenous African people of Zimbabwe? What about the people who were forcefully removed from their land? What about those freedom fighters that sacrificed, fought and lost their lives for the independence of Zimbabwe. Are these people not justified in having some of the land that was stolen from them? Are we saying that we should forget that? I think the words of Robert Mugabe during the height of the vicious attacks against him and his government should be recalled. He stated, "England and the western world feels that what I'm doing is unjustified and that the white land owners should be compensated." He suggested, "Then let England compensate them for the land that I want to give back to my people." MORE |
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