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Only a dead imperialist is good, says Mugabe

Only a dead imperialist is good, says Mugabe
By George Chellah in Harare, Zimbabwe
Wednesday June 18, 2008 [04:00]

ZIMBABWE'S President Robert Mugabe has said he learnt from Ghana's founding president Kwame Nkrumah that only a dead imperialist is good. And President Mugabe threatened to arrest the entire opposition MDC senior leadership for the violence that has engulfed certain areas of the country. Addressing a public rally on Monday, President Mugabe said he learnt a lot of lessons about imperialists from Nkrumah.

"I learnt from Nkrumah to be wary of imperialists, he taught me that only a dead imperialist is a good one. The second lesson was to follow my principles; this should not be bought," President Mugabe said. "We should know that principle is sacred, can't be sold on the altar."

He maintained that there was no way the ruling party would permit the country to go back to the colonialists.

"You decide for yourselves to vote for war or vote for people who work for the development of the country," he said.

President Mugabe urged the people to overwhelmingly vote for ZANU-PF in the presidential runoff.

"We hope to vote for ZANU-PF, for me, so that I deliver a knockout blow to the MDC and its Western financiers," he said.

And President Mugabe expressed concern over the cases of violence allegedly being perpetrated by MDC activists against the people, especially ZANU-PF supporters.
He warned that the government would hold the MDC leadership responsible for the organised violent activities that were taking place in some parts of the country.

"There is a definite plan of violence, an organised system of violence aimed at disturbing law and order. Let them be warned...and I am speaking in English so that their masters in Britain can hear us well," President Mugabe said. "Let them be warned that we will invoke what is known as 'vicarious responsibility and liability', which means we will hold them MDC leadership responsible for the violence across the country."

He explained that this invocation was only applied in special circumstances that threatened to disturb the peace.

President Mugabe, who distanced himself from the violence, said the vice had to be stopped.

The MDC claims that 66 of its supporters have been killed while 25,000 have been displaced since the violence broke out in early April.
"The government would not allow people to suffer and for people to wantonly disturb law and order, we cannot allow it to continue," President Mugabe said.
He also urged voters to know that they would be selling out the country's heritage by voting for the MDC.

"We are lucky the spirits refused to permit that the country goes On March 29 but we are saying don't vote against yourselves," President Mugabe said.
He said Zimbabweans should know that the land was sacred and should never be sold.
President Mugabe said his government would continue to work with whites that wanted to see the country prosper.

Labels: MUGABE, NEOCOLONIALISM

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