Mugabe's Cheka is everywhere, defending the revolution

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THAT President Robert Mugabe is a vicious captain drunken with power is as clear as daylight.

Perhaps what has as yet to be appreciated by many is the rate at which his wayward political conduct characterised by murky doings is steadily drifting into a devastating, ubiquitous clear and present danger to common humanity across the globe.

Consider this: He has, in a brazen defiance of the language of human rights, displayed unquenchable genocidal inclinations, openly flouted international conventions, worked against the constitution, sanctioned police brutality, stolen an election and pardoned political assassins. In fact, the list of his murky ways is endless.

As if to prove his commitment to self destruction he continues to align himself with and to offer unsolicited solidarity gestures to equally obtuse rulers all of whom we know to be unruly captains firmly at the center of domestic human rights violations of catastrophic levels.

In the light of this background it is not wayward therefore to argue that like all paranoid authoritarian rulers he could soon internationalise his unremittingly evil project in the name of pursuing fugitive lawbreakers. He could soon redefine and broaden the geographical sphere of his human rights abuses.

Why should we harbour such fears? The British Police are currently investigating the murder of a Russian dissident, Alexander Litvinenko who was apparently poisoned while in exile in the UK.

The fingers are pointing at Mugabe’s mate, President Vladimir Putin. If not him, it is a cabal of corrupt and evil former KGB agents whose rise to positions of influence can be traced to Putin’s questionable and dark rule, it is said.

Litvinenko died while he was investigating the murder of a crusading Russian journalist who was gunned down outside her apartment in Moscow, and whose assailants have yet to be apprehended and will certainly not be found soon.

Litvenenko was sure that it was Putin who killed her. He died certain that he was poisoned by the same man.

Like Putin, Mugabe is generally angered by disloyalty and infuriated by the taunts of free people. Like Putin Mugabe is widely capable of meting out revenge of malign consequences.

Remember Patrick Nabanyama, Cain Nkala, Rashiwe Guzha, Shirihuru and Captain Edwin Nleya? In Zimbabwe, just like in Russia, there have been so many suspicious murders and inexplicable disappearances that it would not be wrong to just place them at the ruler’s door.

Recently, an intelligence source told me how a machinery has been set up to pursue and monitor those of Mugabe’s critics who go out of the country.

Those to be monitored include free journalists, business people and other political activists.

This comes after the government recently drew a list of dangerous citizens and seized passports belonging to businessman and publisher Trevor Ncube and top opposition politician Paul Themba Nyathi.

The whole exercise works like this: Once one boards a plane at the airport the CIO, who masquerade as immigration officers, immediately file the information
to the Zimbabwean embassy of the targeted person’s destination.

A spy is then dispatched to wait for the person at the airport to see who welcomes him and where he goes etc.

According to the source the Zimbabwean Embassy in London, which is replete with spies, recently dispatched one of their number to monitor the movements of Archbishop Pius Ncube who was in London to address the House of Lords.

The gentleman, who was apparently involved in the 2001 night swoop on former BBC correspondent in Harare, Joseph Winter, waited at the St Stephens Entrance the whole week. One day, he saw me walking into Parliament where I had been invited by a colleague and where I had a brief discussion with one or two parliamentarians including Kate Hoey.

The guy followed me after I had left an hour later as I walked into the Westminster Station where I boarded a Stratford bound underground train.

Fear rose to the throat when a source told me what I was wearing and everything else.

This is certainly not an isolated incident. The exercise is part and parcel of the whole sinister effort to rid the country of any of Mugabe’s critics. Anybody who exercises their right to offer their opinion about misrule becomes a subject of official concern and consequently its opprobrious action.

What is more disturbing is that some of the top informants include senior Church leaders who are apparently incensed by Bishop Ncube’s public stance against Mugabe’s ways

The argument that Mugabe or Putin have nothing to do with the nefarious activities of their agents or defectors is interesting but there is a huge hole and gigantic flaw in it. It ignores the fact that the situation under which such activities thrive exists thanks to the dear leader’s horrible stewardship.

Mugabe’s agents have previously shown themselves to be capable of committing sins abroad. This was apparent in the sins they committed in the DRC during the war and in South Africa where they colluded with the opposition PAC to mobilise the natives there to invade farms Zimbabwean-style.

These Cheka tactics should serve as a warning to the international community that Mugabe’s agents are capable of anything hence the need to tighten the
screws.

Felix Dzerzhinsky, the Polish born leader of the Cheka, the predecessor of the KGB once said: ‘The duty of the Cheka is to defend the people’s revolutions
everywhere and at any cost even if its sword falls occasional on the heads of the innocent’.

Be warned: Mugabe’s Cheka (CIO) is everywhere defending the revolution (Third Chimurenga). Even those who supposedly don’t bring beacon home should watch out.

Mthulisi Mathuthu is a Zimbabwean journalist and New Zimbabwe.com columnist. Views expressed here are his own. He can be contacted at: thuthuma@yahoo.com
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