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ANALYSIS: African Union Meets To Ban Guns in 2020 And Mnangagwa Arrives To Complain, ‘I’m Using Army To Punish My Citizens Since 1983,’ US Govt Has Begun Punishing Me With Illegal Sanctions For It.
11 February 2020
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The African Union’s 2020 theme is: “Silencing The Guns, Creating Conducive Conditions for Economic Growth.”

Emmerson Mnangagwa at the Au summit – pic ZBC

By Simba Chikanza | ANALYSIS | There was drama in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia when the ZANU PF leader, Emmerson Mnangagwa arrived at the African Union summit to complain on why the United States government is punishing him with sanctions for using the army on his own citizens since 1983. 

Mnangagwa was found literally talking to himself at the AU summit(click to read), But what he has both said and practiced since the 4th of April 1983 he has continued 37 years later and it was on that day he first announced he will carry out extrajudicial killings for political purposes against anyone he disagrees with (dissidents). He said, “Blessed are they who will follow the path of the government laws, for their days on earth will be increased; But woe unto those who will choose the path of collaboration with dissidents for we will certainly shorten their stay on earth.”  He got more than 22,000 black Zimbabweans killed shortly after that in the space of a few months.

When the United Nations implicated him for shooting dead 17 more people over the fuel price protest 2019, he rushed to make more boasts: He said: “Hallelujah to those who choose peace and may their days be increased in the land ruled by black people. But those who chose to demonstrate their days will be shortened (sounded in Shona as ‘shrunk’).”

As late as 2 months ago the man was on camera instructing his supporters to ensure that all evidence of killings “is nipped in the bud” before UN agencies discover.

Last month, he told victims of his January 2019 military crackdown in Kuwadzana, that he will send another team of soldiers to surround them if he ever discovered that they are the ones responsible for stopping the rain, literally.

Mnangagwa is captured live on camera saying:

“…..dai taiziva kuti ndimi (Kuwadzana residents) vari kukonzeresa kuti mvura isanaya taingoti army kombai tirove meaning if we knew or found out that you are the ones responsible for the drought, we would have instructed the army to surround you all and beat you up.”

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Since October last year, Mnangagwa has been lobbying AU states to adopt the agenda to get targeted restrictive measures against the Zimbabwe Defence Forces and other ZANU PF entities and persons, removed.

After using live ammunition on his own citizens, killing many on 1 August 2018 when he changed election results, and in January 2019, causing the nation to lose more than USD16bln, Mnangagwa had also burdened the Southern African Development Community, SADC, with a demand to get the restrictive measures removed by the 25th October 2019. (Watch below).

SADC then rushed to issue a call for a removing of the sanctions saying the African Union is behind the calls. But in the face of the AU’s ongoing Silencing Of The Guns 2020 agenda, Mnangagwa has emerged the worst gun criminal.

In his statement he tactfully avoided the main subject on abuse of guns by the state. He focused rather on so called western “sanctions.” He said, “these imposed sanctions have been on for two decades. The EU has taken positive steps to repeal the sanctions regime, we urged them to complete the process by removing the remaining measures against Zimbabwe. My administration has reneged the European Union and the United States of America with a view to normalise our bilateral relations and put the past behind us,” he added.

The only remaining EU sanctions are against the late president Robert Mugabe, his wife Grace, and the Zimbabwe Defence Industries.

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ANALYSIS: It goes without guessing that what the African Union discovered about Emmerson Mnangagwa so far from his own direct words is: “My government is better than heaven’s, this one is just too good… Once we know it is the Kuwadzana people who are stopping the rain; we will send the army to surround them and beat them up… Anyone found with the spirit of legion, I will personally machete them!”

The AU’s 2020 theme is: “Silencing The Guns, Creating Conducive Conditions for Economic Growth.”

Mnangagwa was found literally talking to himself at the AU summit. – click to read

The AU intends to create a state-gun-abuse-free continent by the end of 2020.

On its statement the AU says: the AU Heads of State and Government adopted the Silencing the Guns by 2020 initiative as a flagship project that aims to end all conflicts in Africa by 2020. While good progress has been made in reducing state-driven conflicts, recurring conflicts in several regions is rolling back gains already made in achieving lasting peace. In 2020 the African Union will reinforce its efforts to silence the continent’s guns, focusing in particular on addressing the underlying root-causes and facilitating socio-economic development on the continent.

The AU chairmanship has been taken up by South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa. 

Had the AU adopted Mnangagwa’s agenda, they would have made themselves vulnerable to critics at the summit which is being attended by the UN Secretariat. Between January and December 2019,  the UN publicly criticised Mnangagwa for using guns on its own citizens since the 1st August when the Zimbabwe Defence Forces was used to change 2018 election results as announced by the state broadcaster, ZBC.