Saturday, September 13, 2008

Zimbabwe: Deception or Dawn?

From the UKTimes...

....the agreement apparently reached on Thursday is far from clear. It will not be until Monday, when the two sides officially sign a deal to share power in a new government, that the details are made public. Those details are crucial. For this agreement is either a long-awaited breakthrough, the first step towards ending the Mugabe dictatorship and reviving the shattered country, or it is yet another ruse by the 84-year-old autocrat to hang on to power and escape retribution for years of tyranny.....
The latest compromise on the key issue of where power rests proposes to make Mr Tsvangirai Prime Minister with responsibility for the Cabinet. At the same time, a new council of state under Mr Mugabe would be created, which will oversee the Cabinet. The President, who would be joined by two of his deputies, would however have no veto on the council. This looks like a recipe for confusion and deadlock - or else a loophole through which Mr Mugabe, a shrewd political operator, can escape from any attempt to undermine his powers....

the article then says Tsvangirai will have power over the police, while Mugabe will have power over the Army...no mention about the green bombers...and of course Mugabe won't have to answer for his genocidal actions against the Ndebele in the 1980's...

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