The Imposition of New Personal Travel Restrictions and Asset Freezes for Enablers of Tyranny

May every reader who believes in justice, freedom, and democracy, please Copy & Paste the attached letter and send to their respective Foreign Offices in the free world:
The Honourable Hillary Clinton
Secretary
The United Sates of America Department of State
2201 C Street,NW
Washington, DC 20520
20 September, 2009
Dear Madam Secretary:
Re: The Imposition of New Personal Travel Restrictions and Asset Freezes for Enablers of Tyranny
I write to you as a politically exiled Zimbabwean and a resident of the USA.
Madam Secretary, acquiescing to the plea by elements of Zimbabwe’s ruling party, ZANU (PF), would be an egregious failure that grants common criminals the liberty to roam the streets of the USA—and indeed those of the free world—with impunity. This presents a clear and present danger to the lives of Zimbabwean political refugees and renders their asylum status hollow.
The purveyors of tyranny and perpetrators of some of Africa’s most heinous crimes against humanity seek rights to the very freedoms which they themselves deny us. Ordinary Zimbabweans are blatantly threatened with grievous bodily harm and certain death for exercising their God-given civil liberties.
Madam Secretary, Zimbabweans in exile in the USA and elsewhere prevail upon your conscience to bar our tormentors and persecutors from further inflicting mental torture by being permitted to extravagantly splurge their ill gotten wealth. They derive monies from looted state coffers and spend it on luxuries in the high streets of western cities.
The renewal, reinstatement and imposition of fresh travel restrictions and asset freezes to tyranny’s “dream team” and its enthusiastic enablers gives concrete impetus to permanently dealing a mortal body blow to the enemies of democracy and violators of international humanitarian laws in Zimbabwe.
The undersigned beseeches your esteemed office to impose further punitive measures on members of Zimbabwe’s ruling elite, whose latest pernicious actions and failure to meet their commitments to the Global Political Agreement (GPA) further threatens peace and democracy in Zimbabwe.
An overwhelming economic embargo—to include targeted sanctions such as arms embargoes, flight bans, travel bans and freezing of financial assets—must be enforced to achieve democracy without inflicting unnecessary hardship on the general population.
Freezing the bank accounts of the enablers of tyranny and preventing or restricting foreign travel to the ruling elite, will only impinge on 500 members and their families. Zimbabwe is a nation of 12 million people, the majority of whom have no foreign bank accounts and are denied passports for travel.
Madam Secretary, please pay no attention to apologists who blame personal asset freezes for Zimbabwe's difficulties, obfuscating the fact that Mugabe and his cronies maimed, raped and killed innocent civilians during the elections. The wider ramifications of ZANU (PF)’s actions foment regional instability and cause further misery through the outbreak of cholera, famine and poverty.
In a democratic ideal it is unconscionable for an individual to lose an election and cling to the Office of the President. The dearth of sufficient multilateral steadfastness, compelling Mugabe and his military to relinquish power after emphatically losing the people’s mandate, resulted in Zimbabwe’s current untenable political quid pro quo.
The time has now come to show cast-iron resolve.
Sincerely,
Phil Matibe
Cc: The Chairperson – Senate Foreign Relations Committee
The Chairperson – Congressional Black Caucus
The Ambassador – The United States Mission to the United Nations in New York
The White House Press Secretary – The White House
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