“There is no freedom without struggle, and there is no freedom without sacrifice,” said Morgan Tsvangirai, the main opposition party leader in Zimbabwe, who called for a popular struggle against Robert Mugabe's government. He suffered a brain injury and a fractured skull and was moved into the incentive care unit.
Tsvangirai isn’t alone in facing this kind of torture in the fight for freedom from dictatorship. Under Mugabe`s regime, so many opposition activists have gone through this brutality and political tyranny – some have been detained, raped and even murdered.
Mugabe, who once fought for the freedom of his country, is now denying that freedom to his own people. He has created an economic and political crisis in a once-prosperous nation, which is now known for chronic shortages of food and medicine, highest inflation rate in the world, violation of human rights.
Why hasn’t the UN or international community taken any drastic steps against such cruelties? Is it because it is a case a minority and powerful black community is terrorizing and slaughtering a major black community?
“Mugabe has murdered more black Africans than the evil South African apartheid regime,” said human-rights campaigner, Peter Tatchall. “A black state murdering black citizens does not, apparently, merit the same outrage as a white state murdering black citizens. I call that racism.”
It is time the international community did more than just denouncing Mugabe`s acts. Zimbabwe’s suspension from the Commonwealth alone can`t achieve much, but an end to President Mugabe’s dictatorship would.
The international community must show solidarity with the freedom struggle of the people of Zimbabwe, otherwise sacrifices alone from the opposition activists will only lead to more brutality and murders in the nation. In my opinion, Tsvangirai`s sacrifice and struggle will only pay off if the international community wakes up.
