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IN an unprecedented and daring move, war veterans yesterday came out guns blazing against President Robert Mugabe, describing him as a manipulative, self-centred and failed dictator who has betrayed the ideals of the liberation struggle creating an explosive confrontation amid rising social unrest.
Leaders of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association also declared they had withdrawn their support for Mugabe, whom they accused of promoting factionalism to entrench his rule, at an emotionally charged meeting in Harare yesterday.
The war veterans also accused Mugabe of mismanaging the economy and called him to quit saying an economic turnaround can only occur in his absence.
The former freedom fighters released a hard-hitting and emotionally-charged communique with echoes of their 1975 Mgagao Declaration -- Mugabe's springboard to the Zanu leadership in 1977 after the ouster of Ndabaningi Sithole at the end of a meeting where they condemned Mugabe's continued abuse of state power. They said Zimbabweans should be allowed to enjoy the rights and freedoms without being threatened or labelled sellouts, suggesting they were supportive of the growing popular protests as a result of the economic failure, poverty and suffering.
"We therefore abhor instances were instruments of state power have been used to brutalise private citizens who share our desire to exercise our constitutionally entrenched rights and freedoms," said the war veterans.
Source: All Africa
Leaders of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association also declared they had withdrawn their support for Mugabe, whom they accused of promoting factionalism to entrench his rule, at an emotionally charged meeting in Harare yesterday.
The war veterans also accused Mugabe of mismanaging the economy and called him to quit saying an economic turnaround can only occur in his absence.
The former freedom fighters released a hard-hitting and emotionally-charged communique with echoes of their 1975 Mgagao Declaration -- Mugabe's springboard to the Zanu leadership in 1977 after the ouster of Ndabaningi Sithole at the end of a meeting where they condemned Mugabe's continued abuse of state power. They said Zimbabweans should be allowed to enjoy the rights and freedoms without being threatened or labelled sellouts, suggesting they were supportive of the growing popular protests as a result of the economic failure, poverty and suffering.
"We therefore abhor instances were instruments of state power have been used to brutalise private citizens who share our desire to exercise our constitutionally entrenched rights and freedoms," said the war veterans.
Source: All Africa
