No amount of gunpowder, bullets or button-stick and shotgun wielding mushroom hated hired thugs shall stop, silence or intimidate University students!!!.
Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) notes with disbelief and non repudiated disgust, the fast tracking and cascading of the once illustrious Zimbabwean Universities into being military garrisons and political protectorates,. The outright transmogrification of academic barracks into military and police camps as well as taekwondo training fields.The sacrosanctness of university campuses has been eroded by some charlatans making buffoonery, clownish and impolitic arrangements, butchering students and harassing university students, academic and non academic staff over some very unclear reasons and circumstances.
The recent acts by some suspected ZNA members at Midlands State University deserve no hand claps nor handshakes, probably prayers or physical confrontation in pursuit of justice can be the most positioned answers to the much sought after social justice and reconciliation between ZNA and the entire students fraternity from within and outside.Instead of the state being a doyen of constitutionality and the rule of law, alas, the opposite is true, it has become the most crazy one, the social misfit, the troublemaker, the noise maker, the rebel rouser, the round pegs in square holes.God show us Canaan.
Zimbabwe is a country that has been a function of sustained impunity for deliberate gross human rights violations, from the pre to post colonial times.Gross acts of institutionalized insubordination and human rights violations that include extra-judicial massacres, murders, incarcerations, enforced starvation, not to mention a myriad amongst a pool of many other human rights violations have been committed with impunity.
A recent study by Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, revealed that,’’...all three regime typologies that are civilian institutional, civilian individual or military institutional coexist in Zimbabwe’’. The Head of State, the President wields extraordinary powers, granted under civilian institutional framework, there is considerable evidence that the state is strongly inter penetrated by military since pre colonial to present, the recent acts at Midlands State University are an unabated and incontestable factual terrain of the above assertion, where some suspected ZNA members invaded campus and started beating hap haphazardly, helter skeltrely and indiscriminately, every living organism targeting mostly human beings irregardless of gender.This was a retributive, reactionary wrong move to an act where a ZNA member had been defeated in a dry hands, head on encounter with some citizens whilst drunk the previous night.
Unfortunately, students became the most efficient target for the gang to vent their misplaced frustration and acrimony.This has been common all-over the country , citizens of Zimbabwe have been victims of human rights abuse in the very same manner and circumstances, now we say nada!!, noo!!!, justice should prevail and should be pursued.
Its sad to note that these acts come on the midst of the making of the NPRC Bill, a bill which is after reconciliation, reparation, truth-saying , forgiveness and mending the undulated, meandered and potholed unfortunate past.Diabolic acts like these continue to strengthen the position that no transitional justice process and mechanisms are possible in a state where deliberate human rights violations continue to be perpetrated with no genuine political transformation and where the state is predatory, authoritarian, brutal and violent, and where remorse is perpetually evidently absent from the perpetrator.
WE, therefore warn the Chancellor and all his Vice Chancellors in Zimbabwean State Universities to stop forthwith, the activation and unleashing of repressive state machinery to silence, intimidate and or butcher University Students and the entire citizenry, for this is tantamount to abuse of power and offices.
ZINASU National Spokesperson.
Treasure Basopo
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