The war against white farmers in the run-up to the 200 elections was not racist. It was about greed. The farmers were being targetted because they possessed wealth, the United States embassy said in a cable dispatched on 11 May 2000.
“Most Zimbabweans harbour some degree of distrust, prejudice against or even fear of whites, stemming from Zimbabwe’s apartheid-like past, but Mugabe’s current campaign against the minority living in the countryside must not be seen only in terms of racism,” the cable said.
“Whites living in the city go about their business unhindered. Rather, commercial farmers are being targetted because they possess wealth and the country is in dire economic straits, and many have become involved in or support opposition politics, including the three who have been killed since April.
“After twenty years of enduring poor governance and misguided economic programs, the losers of the revolution, mainly the war veterans, see that now is their chance to get theirs. Proof that it is not strictly an anti-white campaign is a letter from the affirmative action group, an ostensible pressure group dedicated to the advancement of Zimbabwe’s black businessmen, now circulating among the Indian community.
“The letter threatens occupation of Indian-owned businesses and properties if they do not turn them over to indigenous businessmen. Greed is colour-blind.”
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SUBJECT: “RED GUARDS” AND SQUATTERS: MUGABE’S
CAMPAIGN SHOCK TROOPS
REF: HARARE 2461
CLASSIFIED BY DEPUTY CHIEF OF MISSION EARL M. IRVING FOR
REASONS 1.5 (B) AND (D).
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SUMMARY
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¶1. (C) THE MEANING OF DEMOCRACY IS BEING VITIATED IN
ZIMBABWE. IN ORDER TO WIN THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION,
THE DATE OF WHICH IS STILL NOT FIXED, PRESIDENT MUGABE
HAS UNLEASHED A CAMPAIGN OF TERROR IN THE COUNTRYSIDE,
COMPARABLE IN PURPOSE TO CHINA’S CULTURAL REVOLUTION.
HIS TRUSTED AGENTS ARE THE “WAR VETERANS,” MISFITS WHO
MISSED THE BOAT ON THE BENEFITS OF ZANU-PF’S ASCENT TO
POWER IN 1980, WHO WE PREDICT WILL REMAIN ON THE FARMS
UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION AT THE VERY LEAST TO SETTLE
SCORES WITH OPPOSITION SUPPORTERS. MUGABE HAS FORCED
WHITE COMMERCIAL FARMERS (WHOSE WEALTH, AND NOT RACIAL
PREJUDICE, HAS BROUGHT THEM INTO THE RULING PARTY’S
SIGHTS — A TRIUMPH OF GREED) TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE WAR
VETS, THUS GRANTING THE VETS SOME DEGREE OF LEGITIMACY.
THIS STEP ENSURES THAT THEY WILL RETAIN A SEAT AT ALL
FUTURE DISCUSSIONS ON LAND REFORM. IN THE RURAL AREAS
WAR VETERANS AND YOUNG ZANU-PF THUGS ARE CONDUCTING MAO-
STYLE POLITICAL “RE-EDUCATION” CAMPS TO FORCE FARMERS
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AND THEIR WORKERS TO RECANT AND VOTE FOR THE RULING
PARTY. IN THE CITIES WE EXPECT ZANU-PF TO INUNDATE THE
POLLING PLACES WITH PERI-URBAN SQUATTERS EAGER FOR A
PETTY PAYOFF, DILUTING CHANCES OF AN OPPOSITION WIN IN
THESE CONSTITUENCIES. THE OPPOSITION MOVEMENT FOR
DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (MDC) HAS BEEN UNABLE TO COUNTERACT
EFFECTIVELY THE RULING PARTY’S VIOLENCE AND TACTICS,
BEING NEARLY FORCED TO GO AND ACT UNDERGROUND. THE
SHEER BRUTALITY OF THE CAMPAIGN, EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY
AS ELECTION DAY APPROACHES, COUPLED WITH THE
GOVERNMENT’S CONTINUED INATTENTION TO THE ECONOMY, WILL
HAVE NEGATIVE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE REGION THAT SHOULD BE
DISCUSSED DURING SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT MBEKI’S STATE
VISIT TO WASHINGTON. END SUMMARY.
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RECANT AND CONVERT…OR ELSE
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¶2. (C) ALTHOUGH ZIMBABWE IS SCHEDULED TO HOLD A
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION WITHIN THE NEXT TWO MONTHS OR SO
(WE HAVE HEARD JUNE 17 AND JULY 11 AS POSSIBLE DATES),
WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE RUN-UP TO THEM HARDLY FALLS
UNDER THE RUBRIC OF DEMOCRACY, EVEN MAKING ALLOWANCES
FOR A YOUNG STATE IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD. FREEDOM OF
EXPRESSION AND ASSEMBLY ARE VIRTUALLY NON-EXISTENT. THE
POLICE COMMISSIONER HAS SAID HE WILL APPLY THE LAW AND
ORDER MAINTENANCE ACT TO PREVENT OPPOSITION PARTIES FROM
BUSING SUPPORTERS TO RALLIES. A BOMB EXPLODED IN FRONT
OF THE OFFICES OF AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER THAT SUPPORTS
THE OPPOSITION MDC. THE GOVERNMENT-INFLUENCED “THE
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HERALD” NEWSPAPER HAS BECOME A CESSPIT OF FACT-TWISTING
AND SCURRILOUS “JOURNALISM,” NO LONGER MAKING ANY
PRETENSE OF PROFESSIONALISM OR NONPARTISAN COVERAGE OF
THE NEWS. IN THE COUNTRYSIDE “WAR VETERANS” OCCUPY
FARMS, BEAT, KILL AND DESTROY THE PROPERTY OF ANYONE
SUSPECTED OF EVEN THE REMOTEST SYMPATHY OR CONNECTION TO
THE OPPOSITION. ZANU-PF PARTY WORKERS, WIELDING WEAPONS
IN FRONT OF TOUGH CROWDS, ORDER COMMERCIAL FARMERS TO
TRANSPORT THEIR OWN FARM WORKERS TO RALLIES FOR
POLITICAL RE-EDUCATION. FARMS ARE NOT THE EXCLUSIVE
VENUE FOR BARBARITY. ON MAY 10 FOUR MDC MEMBERS
“DISAPPEARED” IN THE MATABELELAND TOWN OF LUPANE AND ARE
RUMORED TO BE HELD IN MATOPOS.
¶3. (C) IN ORDER TO SEE HIS PARTY RETAIN CONTROL OF
PARLIAMENT, MUGABE HAS TAKEN A PAGE FROM HIS IDOL, MAO
TSE-TUNG, AND LAUNCHED HIS CULTURAL REVOLUTION IN THE
SIPDIS
COUNTRYSIDE, TO BORROW THE ANALOGY OF A LOCAL
JOURNALIST. MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL LIBERATION WAR
VETERANS ASSOCIATION (NLWVA) ARE OCCUPYING WHITE-OWNED
COMMERCIAL FARMS AND CONDUCTING A REIGN OF TERROR,
TARGETING “INTELLECTUALS,” SUCH AS SCHOOLTEACHERS, FOR
PARTICULARLY HARSH TREATMENT AND PUNISHMENT. WE PREDICT
THEY WILL STAY ON THE FARMS UNTIL AFTER ELECTION DAY.
ONCE THE POLL RESULTS ARE IN THEY LIKELY WILL SINGLE OUT
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THOSE THEY THINK VOTED FOR THE MDC FOR RETRIBUTION,
BURNING THEIR DWELLINGS OR EVEN MURDERING THEM.
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A BLUNT INSTRUMENT OF PERSUASION
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¶4. (C) THE WAR VETERANS, SUPPORTED BY THE POLICE, SOME
PLAINCLOTHES MILITARY AND CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
ORGANIZATION OFFICERS, ARE NOW MUGABE’S PROTEAN GUARD,
THE PEOPLE HE RELIES UPON, WITH OR WITHOUT THE ADDED
BENEFIT OF TRUST OF ITS LEADER, CHENJERAI “HITLER”
HUNZVI. THE PARTY AND EVEN THE SECURITY FORCES HAVE
BECOME LESS RELIABLE, WITH MEMBERS OF BOTH OPPOSED TO
MUGABE’S USE OF VIOLENCE AND INTIMIDATION AS BASIC
CAMPAIGN TOOLS. THE STILL-DETERIORATING ECONOMY ALSO
LENDS THEM NO SUCCOR. BUT THE LUMPEN, KNOW-NOTHING “WAR
VETS,” MANY BLATANTLY TOO YOUNG TO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN
THE CHIMURENGA (WAR OF NATIONAL LIBERATION), ARE LOYAL
IN A CANINE WAY AND ARE, IN OUR JUDGMENT, UNDER MUGABE’S
FIRM DIRECTION THOUGH THE CONTROL FACTOR IS LESS
CERTAIN.
¶5. (C) AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FARM OCCUPATION EXERCISE
THE NLWVA SUFFERED FROM A PROBLEM: LACK OF LEGITIMACY.
THOUGH EVERYONE UNDERSTOOD THAT THEIR LAWLESS BEHAVIOR
WAS SANCTIONED BY THE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE, THERE WAS NO
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PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF THE NEW SYMBIOSIS. IN ORDER TO
OVERCOME THE LEGITIMACY HURDLE AND TO BE SEEN AS A
REASONABLE AND ENLIGHTENED LEADER, MUGABE AUTHORIZED THE
WAR VETERANS TO NEGOTIATE DIRECTLY WITH THE COMMERCIAL
FARMERS, AIDED BY THE MEDIATION EFFORTS OF FATHER
FIDELIS MUKONORI, S.J., A MEMBER OF THE CLERGY TRUSTED
BY MUGABE. THE FARMERS, DESPERATE FOR RELIEF FROM THE
OCCUPATIONS AND WISHING TO REAP THEIR HARVEST, SAT DOWN,
TALKED AND CONCEDED. IT’S HARD NOT TO DO SO WITH A GUN
AT YOUR HEAD. THE WAR VETS, MEANWHILE, HAVE NOT
FULFILLED THE TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT, PEACE FOR LAND,
BUT NOW WILL HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE IN ANY FUTURE
DISCUSSIONS ON LAND REFORMS. THEY HAVE PROVEN, AT A
MINIMUM, TO BE PERFIDIOUS INTERLOCUTORS.
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THE URBAN CENTERS ARE NOT FORGOTTEN
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¶6. (C) THE RULING PARTY APPEARS TO HAVE ABANDONED
COMPLETELY ITS ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGY, ONCE THOUGHT TO
BE A STEP TO COURT THE URBAN VOTE AND EVEN INTERNATIONAL
GOOD WILL. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IS NEITHER TARGETING
ANY OTHER SENIOR GOVERNMENT FIGURE FOR ARREST NOR EVEN
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS OF PUSHING FORWARD THE CASES
OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED. INDEED, THE ZANU-PF
POLITBURO, WITH THE COMPLICITY OF THE COURTS WHICH
SUSPENDED ALL THEIR BAIL RESTRICTIONS, HAS ALLOWED
FORMER MINISTER OF LANDS AND AGRICULTURE KUMBIRAI KANGAI
TO RUN FOR AND WIN THE ZANU-PF PRIMARY ELECTION IN
BUHERA SOUTH, A CRYSTAL-CLEAR SIGN THAT ALL IS FORGIVEN.
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WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE FORMER COMMANDER OF THE ARMY
SOLOMON MUJURU APPROACHED PRESIDENT MUGABE AND ASKED HIM
TO STOP PURGING PARTY ELEMENTS.
¶7. (C) FOR THE CITIES WIDESPREAD TERROR IS BAD
BUSINESS, BUT THE RULING PARTY HAS NOT CONCEDED THESE
CONSTITUENCIES ENTIRELY TO THE MDC. INSTEAD, IT APPEARS
THAT ITS TACTIC WILL BE TO FLOOD THE POLLING PLACES ON
ELECTION DAY WITH PERI-URBAN SQUATTERS, OF WHICH THERE
ARE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS, AND MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY
(WHO, ALONG WITH DIPLOMATS, MAY CAST BALLOTS BY MAIL) TO
VOTE FOR ZANU-PF. MAKING THIS POSSIBLE IS THE FACT
THAT, AS THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR GENERAL INFORMED US
MAY 10, ELECTION REGISTRATION CONTINUES, IN SPITE OF THE
OSTENSIBLY OFFICIAL CLOSING DATE OF MARCH 31.
TECHNICALLY THOSE WHO REGISTERED AFTER THE CLOSING DATE,
WHEN THE ROLLS WERE TURNED OVER TO THE DELIMITATION
COMMISSION, COULD VOTE BY BEING PLACED ON A
SUPPLEMENTARY REGISTER.
¶8. (C) WE EXPECT THE INTIMIDATION CAMPAIGN IN THE RUN-
UP TO THE ELECTION ONLY TO INTENSIFY. VIOLENCE
FOLLOWING THE ELECTION REMAINS MORE THAN JUST A REAL
POSSIBILITY. IN THE INCREASINGLY UNLIKELY EVENT THAT
ZANU-PF DOES NOT TAKE AN OUTRIGHT MAJORITY, WE THINK THE
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RULING PARTY WILL NOT ACCEPT THE RESULT. IT WILL ACCUSE
THE OPPOSITION OF RIGGING THE ELECTION, OF WAGING A
CAMPAIGN OF INTIMIDATION, SUPPORTED BY THE OFFSHORE
WHITE-RULED CABAL, AND MAY POSSIBLY ORDER THE JAILING OR
ASSASSINATION OF MORGAN TSVANGIRAI — IN SHORT,
EVERYTHING IT HAS DONE AND IS DOING ITSELF. IT WOULD BE
AT THIS POINT, OR AT LEAST SHORTLY THEREAFTER SO THE
THUGS COULD GO WILDING AGAINST PERCEIVED MDC SUPPORTERS,
THAT WE CAN SEE THE ARMY INTERVENING TO HALT THE CHAOS
WITH THE ATTENDANT IMPOSITION OF A STATE OF EMERGENCY.
WE RECEIVE FREQUENT REPORTS THAT THE MILITARY IS PART OF
THE VIOLENCE CAMPAIGN IN THE FORM OF THE NOTORIOUS
“FIFTH BRIGADE,” WHICH COMMITTED ATROCITIES IN
MATABELELAND AND MIDLANDS IN THE 1980S. THE MERE
APPEARANCE OF ITS OFFICERS IN RED BERETS INCITES FEAR IN
THE NDEBELE.
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MDC HAVING HARD TIME COUNTERACTING VIOLENCE
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¶9. (C) BY KEEPING TO THE MORAL HIGH GROUND, THE MDC
APPEARS TO HAVE YIELDED STRATEGIC DOMINANCE TO ZANU-PF.
THE MDC HAS BEEN HARD-PRESSED TO COUNTERACT THE WAVE OF
VIOLENCE AND DEMONIZATION IN THE MEDIA, WHICH ARE ALMOST
DRIVING IT TO CONDUCT ITS CAMPAIGN UNDERGROUND. SO FAR
MDC LEADER TSVANGIRAI HAS ONLY BEEN ABLE TO SAY THAT HIS
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FORMER ROOST, THE ZIMBABWE COUNCIL OF TRADE UNIONS, MAY
CALL FOR A GENERAL, NATIONWIDE STRIKE. RESPONDING TO
UNEASE IN THE RANKS, THE MDC LEADERSHIP HAS FLOATED THE
POSSIBILITY OF A GENERAL BOYCOTT OF THE ELECTIONS AS ONE
OF SEVERAL POSSIBLE OPTIONS. MORGAN TSVANGIRAI IS SAID
PERSONALLY TO OPPOSE IT BECAUSE A SIMILAR OPPOSITION
STRATEGY BACKFIRED IN 1995. MOREOVER, BY DROPPING OUT
OF THE RACE NOW THE MDC LEADERSHIP WOULD SIGNAL THAT
SUPPORTERS WHO PERISHED IN THE POLITICAL VIOLENCE HAVE
DONE SO IN VAIN. NEVERTHELESS, SUCH A MOVE WOULD PUT
THE LIE TO ANY SEMBLANCE OF LEGITIMACY OR CLAIM OF
PLURALISM, WHEN AND IF THE ELECTIONS ARE HELD.
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THE REGIONAL IMPACT
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¶10. (C) THE IMPACT THAT SUCH DIRE ACTIONS WILL HAVE ON
THE REGION ARE SERIOUS. AT THAT STAGE ZIMBABWE’S
ECONOMY WILL BE IN THE FIRST STAGES OF AN EFFECTIVE
MELTDOWN, WITH CONSEQUENT REGIONAL NEGATIVE EFFECTS.
VIRTUALLY ALL THE SADC MEMBER COUNTRIES WILL SEE THE
STRENGTH OF THEIR COMMERCIAL CREDIT RATINGS UNDER
THREAT. THE RAND WILL FACE AN EVEN MORE SERIOUS LOSS OF
CONFIDENCE THAN THAT BEHIND ITS RECENT, NEARLY 20
PERCENT DROP VIS-A-VIS THE U.S. DOLLAR. HOW DEEP THE
HOLE GETS IN ZIMBABWE IS AT THIS TIME ANYONE’S GUESS.
¶11. (C) NOW IS THE TIME TO CONTINUE OUR BEST EFFORTS TO
ALTER THIS PROJECTED COURSE WHICH IS GATHERING MOMENTUM.
U/S TALBOTT’S PUBLIC AND PRIVATE STATEMENTS DURING HIS
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VISIT TO THE REGION WERE VALUABLE. THE STATE VISIT TO
WASHINGTON OF SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT THABO MBEKI LATER
THIS MONTH PRESENTS A RIPE OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THE
BIDDING ON ZIMBABWE AND ELICIT GOOD AND MORE PRODUCTIVE
ACTION FROM THE REGION’S ECONOMIC COLOSSUS.
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MORE GREED THAN PREJUDICE
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¶12. (C) FINALLY, A WORD ABOUT RACE RELATIONS. MOST
ZIMBABWEANS HARBOR SOME DEGREE OF DISTRUST, PREJUDICE
AGAINST OR EVEN FEAR OF WHITES, STEMMING FROM ZIMBABWE’S
APARTHEID-LIKE PAST, BUT MUGABE’S CURRENT CAMPAIGN
AGAINST THE MINORITY LIVING IN THE COUNTRYSIDE MUST NOT
BE SEEN ONLY IN TERMS OF RACISM. WHITES LIVING IN THE
CITY GO ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS UNHINDERED. RATHER,
COMMERCIAL FARMERS ARE BEING TARGETED BECAUSE THEY
POSSESS WEALTH AND THE COUNTRY IS IN DIRE ECONOMIC
STRAITS, AND MANY HAVE BECOME INVOLVED IN OR SUPPORT
OPPOSITION POLITICS, INCLUDING THE THREE WHO HAVE BEEN
KILLED SINCE APRIL. AFTER TWENTY YEARS OF ENDURING POOR
GOVERNANCE AND MISGUIDED ECONOMIC PROGRAMS, THE LOSERS
OF THE REVOLUTION, MAINLY THE WAR VETERANS, SEE THAT NOW
IS THEIR CHANCE TO GET THEIRS. PROOF THAT IT IS NOT
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STRICTLY AN ANTI-WHITE CAMPAIGN IS A LETTER FROM THE
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION GROUP, AN OSTENSIBLE PRESSURE GROUP
DEDICATED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF ZIMBABWE’S BLACK
BUSINESSMEN, NOW CIRCULATING AMONG THE INDIAN COMMUNITY.
THE LETTER THREATENS OCCUPATION OF INDIAN-OWNED
BUSINESSES AND PROPERTIES IF THEY DO NOT TURN THEM OVER
TO INDIGENOUS BUSINESSMEN. GREED IS COLOR-BLIND.
IRVING
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