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Tallaght resident calls for action on Zimbabwe

Thursday, 10 July 2008

A TALLAGHT resident and native of Zimbabwe is leading calls here in Ireland for the international community to intervene and end the “brutal dictatorship” of Robert Mugabe.
Scores of Zimbabweans marched through Dublin city centre on Saturday June 28 calling for an end to the suffering of Zimbabweans under the current regime in their country.
The march was led by Tendai Madondo, a resident of Tallaght who also announced early this year that she intends to run in the local elections in 2009.
The protest was organised by Zimbabweans living in Ireland, including the Zimbabwe Group of Amnesty International. The group is calling on the Irish Government and the international community to stop talking and take action to end the crisis in Zimbabwe.
“People in Zimbabwe are being intimidated, beaten, forced from their homes and even killed in Mugabe’s campaign of terror,” said Ms Madondo.
“It is time for the international community to stop talking and take action to protect the poor and vulnerable people who are suffering most.”
President Robert Mugabe came under pressure at an African Union summit last week to negotiate with the opposition after being re-elected in a one-candidate election condemned by regional monitors.
South Africa, a key player in the Zimbabwe crisis, called for Mugabe's ZANU-PF and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC to enter talks on a transitional government.
Mr Tsvangirai withdrew from the ballot because of attacks on his supporters.

At the African Union meeting last week, a spokesman for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe rejected Western criticism of the country's disputed presidential run-off election
George Charamba said the West had no basis to speak about the situation - and said they can "go hang a thousand times".
Amid suggestions of a Kenya-style deal with the opposition, he said only a "Zimbabwean way" could end the crisis.
President Robert Mugabe said he had fairly won the vote which was boycotted by the opposition.

Crisis
The organisers of the protest march in Dublin delivered a letter to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin, on Monday, June 30, calling for renewed action to end the humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe.
The Zimbabwean economy has collapsed and business has come to a near complete halt. Schools are closed and hospitals are barely staffed.
Since the first round of elections, over 80 people have died, 3,000 have been injured and 30,000 displaced in unprecedented violence campaigns.
In addition to the violence, Zimbabweans are facing water and electricity cuts, severe food and medicine shortages and half of the population is malnourished.

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