Opinion By Blessing Madzima|Elections came after the fall of Mugabe, and that process failed to create a government that represents all of us and the real will of Zimbabweans. It failed to create a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice.

Real good people failed to go into the government, instead corrupt and incompetent individuals were fraudulently voted into government and parliament. That struggle continues up to now because the aspirations of the people was betrayed by few individuals through the military. Now the government that was created refuses entitlement to be criticised and its objective as a good government to care for human life and happiness instead it is objecting for destruction and persecution of citizens.

This government has also caused a Great Depression which includes severe unemployment, abject poverty, inequality, corruption and an inherent instability of the economy and social life.

It is now inevitable and horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save our lives and our country. This government is refusing to listen to the people or accept any advise even from those reputable developed countries and international institutions.

It claims it is a democracy yet it is persecuting and suppressing its citizens more. It is not acknowledging that democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living and communicated experience.

Democracy is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards your fellow citizens. Corruption by government institutions and individuals from government is hampering development and good governance. There is no cohesion in government and people at large to achieve a national objective.

As a collective, it’s high time as citizens we need to remind this regime that government is us people and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy is not Munagwagwa and his Cabal, but us the citizens and voters of this country.

We now need to embrace crying mothers who have lost their children at the hands of Munagwagwa and his security apparatus who have chosen to put their personal agendas before the national good. The people no longer have any patience for injustice, no more tolerance for government incompetence, and no sympathy for leaders and security who fail their citizens.

We have lost our integrity, identity and our cultural values through persecution and brutality from this government and its security apparatus.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time when there is a government that deserves also support from its citizens. We now seem to have an invincible tyrant which has been set up above the forms of democracy. Citizens, as the government of our country we have every right to refuse and reject this Cabal through protests and civil disobedience.

We deserve to be supported by the international community and all purported democracies all over the world. Our voices should be loud and technology should be readily available and be used to expose all the atrocities committed by this Junta. All crimes of humanity should be recorded and necessary strategies and action taken before Zimbabwe unfold into another Rwanda or genocide.

The government must be forced into a reform agenda concerning a series of measures to be enacted which should increase the political stability and the supply potential of the economy. The people of Zimbabwe cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists, protecting them and to promote their common welfare, therefore a transitional authority that sets up reforms and an election roadmap that includes economic stabilisation must be established with the urgency that understands the seriousness of the crisis Zimbabwe faces right now.

The army must be disarmed and barricaded into the barracks to ensure citizens have their freedom back to exercise their voice and vote to choose a government and members of parliament of their own choice. We need to create a government that will have the honour and the morals of the whole people to effect an effective, fair administration with good governance.

Power to the people through People’s Power is our only way and it needs international support to be able to disarm or force this Junta to respect the will of the people. Our people have ultimately been invaded by our government and is freely doing anything it pleases, while the citizens are only allowed to act by permission, which is now our darkest stage of our human history, stage of rule by brute force.

That is the reason why we are advocating for the international community to be our arbitrator as well as enforcer to ensure citizens are spared their lives and no repeat of past experiences such as Rwanda or Uganda under Idi Amin.

With all this in place Zimbabwe can be guaranteed to start a new leaf with most of its Diaspora expatriates ready to return to Zimbabwe and help in rebuilding the country.