Canada Recognize Morgan Tsvangirai as President of Zimbabwe
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On March 29, 2008, Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition candidate for President in Zimbabwe, won the most votes in the Presidential election in Zimbabwe.
Some believe that he won the majority of the votes in that election and by virtue of that should have been inaugurated as the President of Zimbabwe. However, the Zimbabwe election commission reported (in a delayed report of the results) that he had won a plurality, but not enough to avoid having a runoff with the incumbent, Robert Mugabe. This was the last legitimate poll for the Presidency in Zimbabwe.
Between that time and the recent 'election', thousands of people have been brutalized or murdered---apparently by the incumbent government and its supporters. There are suggestions that those who have benefitted from the economic despotism of the incumbent government were not prepared to give up their ill-gotten gains, nor were they prepared to allow an opposition candidate to be elected. To this end a campaign of terror was unleashed by the incumbent government and political party, the ZANU-PF against the opposition,the MDC, against supporters of Morgan Tsvangirai and against the people of Zimbabwe. Repressive laws dating from the colonial era and the era before 'majority' rule and universal suffrage in Zimbabwe, have been used against the very people of Zimbabwe who so bravely fought against them in the past. One flawed regime has been replaced by a totally repressive dictatorship. By a recently reported poll, Zimbabwe is the 'saddest' country on the planet.
As a result of the 'election', the incumbent pretender, Robert Mugabe, has reinaugurated himself as President. Morgan Tsvangirai was forced to take refuge in the Dutch embassy and to withdraw from the election. Others, such as the wife of the MDC mayor of Harrare have not been so lucky---having been abducted, slaughtered and dumped in a pit. Others have had their homes destroyed, been compelled to attend late night 're-education' sessions or even been stabbed repeatedly by screwdrivers and other objects. Severely injured people have been rounded up and taken to prison.
As a Canadian, a free and democratic person who believes in universal human rights and who believes that the people of Zimbabwe deserve the freedom for which they fought, I would ask the Honourable Stehpen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, the Government of Canada and the Parliament of Canada, on my behalf as a Canadian Citizen, to publicly and formally recognize Morgan Tsvangirai as the President of Zimbabwe, effective on the date of the illegitimate run-off election, and to use its and their best efforts in the various bodies of which it is a member to have this recognition implemented not only in words, but by action.
Some believe that he won the majority of the votes in that election and by virtue of that should have been inaugurated as the President of Zimbabwe. However, the Zimbabwe election commission reported (in a delayed report of the results) that he had won a plurality, but not enough to avoid having a runoff with the incumbent, Robert Mugabe. This was the last legitimate poll for the Presidency in Zimbabwe.
Between that time and the recent 'election', thousands of people have been brutalized or murdered---apparently by the incumbent government and its supporters. There are suggestions that those who have benefitted from the economic despotism of the incumbent government were not prepared to give up their ill-gotten gains, nor were they prepared to allow an opposition candidate to be elected. To this end a campaign of terror was unleashed by the incumbent government and political party, the ZANU-PF against the opposition,the MDC, against supporters of Morgan Tsvangirai and against the people of Zimbabwe. Repressive laws dating from the colonial era and the era before 'majority' rule and universal suffrage in Zimbabwe, have been used against the very people of Zimbabwe who so bravely fought against them in the past. One flawed regime has been replaced by a totally repressive dictatorship. By a recently reported poll, Zimbabwe is the 'saddest' country on the planet.
As a result of the 'election', the incumbent pretender, Robert Mugabe, has reinaugurated himself as President. Morgan Tsvangirai was forced to take refuge in the Dutch embassy and to withdraw from the election. Others, such as the wife of the MDC mayor of Harrare have not been so lucky---having been abducted, slaughtered and dumped in a pit. Others have had their homes destroyed, been compelled to attend late night 're-education' sessions or even been stabbed repeatedly by screwdrivers and other objects. Severely injured people have been rounded up and taken to prison.
As a Canadian, a free and democratic person who believes in universal human rights and who believes that the people of Zimbabwe deserve the freedom for which they fought, I would ask the Honourable Stehpen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, the Government of Canada and the Parliament of Canada, on my behalf as a Canadian Citizen, to publicly and formally recognize Morgan Tsvangirai as the President of Zimbabwe, effective on the date of the illegitimate run-off election, and to use its and their best efforts in the various bodies of which it is a member to have this recognition implemented not only in words, but by action.
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