Letter to Mr Robert Mugabe

President Robert Mugabe

Office of the President
Munhumutapa Building
Samora Machel Avenue/ 3rd Street
Harare, Zimbabwe

25 October 2009

Dear Mr President,

On behalf of voiceless Zimbabweans, I write this letter pregnant with anger over the inflammatory announcement of the imminent inauguration of the paramilitary youth militia training by your government. Zimbabweans implore that you immediately reverse any further recruitment of ZANU (PF) youths into these camps that churn out rapists, murderers, and impenitent human rights violators.

The insensitive and unilateral act of reactivating these camps is psychological torture to the multitudes of innocent victims of the dreadful Youth Militia’s last orgy of violence during the previous elections, and the abrupt appearance of hordes of youth militia clad in green military fatigues is an intimidatory tactic meant as a menace to the populace. Our collective umbrage with this latest offensive taunt forms part of a laundry list of provocative acts by you aimed at derailing the fragile national healing and reconciliation process.

Please be advised that the collapse of the Government of National Unity (GNU) renders your already precarious position as Head of State and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces untenable and relegates you to the archives of illegitimate presidents.

Avert humiliation, accept the various dignified exit strategies and retirement options painstakingly penned by your peers and laid out before your office.  In the name of democracy, justice, and peace, the people of Zimbabwe beseech you to immediately retire and resign from the Office of the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe needs leadership renewal coupled to an economic revival and your departure from the body politic will be the trigger point for a peaceful national transformation.

Your tenure as President is divisive and continues to cause political discord and ethnic fissures that threaten peace and tranquillity in both Zimbabwe and the region. Your stubbornness and intransigence pauses a palpable threat to the coexistence of Zimbabweans and to your fellow principals of the Global Political Agreement.

Please take this opportunity to dissolve parliament and announce a date for fresh parliamentary and presidential elections in which you shall not participate.

Thank you for your attention in this matter and Zimbabweans await your response.

Yours Sincerely,

Phil Matibe

www.madhingabucketboy.com

cc: The Prime Minister of Zimbabwe – Mr. Morgan Tsvangirai