“Evil Western Powers Can Not Teach Us Democracy”, ZANUPF

ZANU PF has condemned, especially Britain and United States for parading themselves as paragons of human rights while they were the perpetrators of the crimes against humanity during the slave trade era.

Speaking during press briefing Party Acting Spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa said Western countries are not in the best position to criticize Zimbabwe on democracy when they were responsible for the killings of millions of Africans during slave.

“Zanu PF takes strong exception to being lectured on issues of human rights by citizens of countries which perpetrated the brutalities accompanying the Atlantic African Slave Trade and colonial conquest of Africa, and who refuse to render apologies or pay reparations,” Chinamasa said.

“As a consequence of seeking to redress the brutalities that occurred in the colonisation of Zimbabwe, accompanied by dispossession of our land and brutal confiscation of livestock by colonialists, the country has suffered 20 years of naked bullying, economic isolation and severe sanctions regime by the former colonial powers now acting in concert as economic and political powers in support of what they allege are rights of 4 500 white former farmers,” he said.

Zanu PF also demanded that all Western countries which were involved in colonialism and slavery should pay compensation and offer apologies to those that they wronged.

Chinamasa said instead the other European powers legalized slavery, Denmark and the Netherlands paid reparations to the slave Masters but nothing to the slaves.

“In modern times reparations have been paid to Jews, Korean Women and Japanese Americans for wrongs committed against them,”

“Japan also reparations for “Comfort Women” it forcibly obtained from Korea during that War,”

“In contrast Africans have received no reparations for the atrocities committed against them during their 350 years of captive enslavement. Surely Africans are being discriminated against on racist grounds,”

Zimbabwe is under international spotlight over human rights violations, closing of the democratic space and clamping down on opposition political parties, resulting in the imposition of sanctions against top government figures.

Chinamasa said this was a form of slavery and bullying by the Western powers, which were also yet to come clean on their role on slavery.