And you believed Robert Mugabe, you idiots?

Serves you right, you gits, for believing in what Robert Mugabe tells you. The chap is a thug, but again, I suppose he is one of your own, isn't he?

Mugabe misled SADC about MDC terrorism charges

By Lance Guma
08 August 2007

Southern African Development Community (SADC) heads of state have been left with egg on their face after allowing Mugabe the benefit of the doubt when he claimed at a meeting his regime was cracking down on the opposition to stem a terrorism plot. The brutal assault on opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and several other activists put Mugabe in the spotlight and he responded by getting the Home Affairs ministry to produce mountains of ‘information’ packed into what they termed a dossier incriminating the MDC. The document circulated worldwide and contained pictures of alleged terrorism acts and listed several alleged perpetrators in the opposition.

It has taken the dramatic collapse of the state case in court to prove that Mugabe in fact misled his SADC peers. The latest proof of this is the acquittal of Glen View MDC legislator Paul Madzore on Monday this week. He faced charges that in March 2007 he incited members in his constituency to engage in acts of violence following a planned stay away by the labour unions. Then on Wednesday the two remaining MDC officials, Morgan Komichi and Dennis Murira, who spent over 5 months in remand prison allegedly for recruiting the ‘terrorists,’ were set free by the High Court on Z$10 million bail.

The terrorism charges engineered by the state have seen the High Court blast police for faking evidence. Justice Lawrence Kamocha last month delivered the stinging criticism after freeing 15 activists facing terrorism charges. He threw out all the key police evidence submitted, saying they had failed to show on a map the location of a farm in South Africa where the alleged banditry training was supposed to have taken place. The judge concluded the farm was ‘nonexistent’ and that state witnesses were ‘fictitious persons.’ The entire case formed part of Mugabe’s propaganda push and his peers in SADC must be embarrassed at the new developments.

All this to be taken with a grain of piquant salt!!!