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| Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Monday, November 19, 2001 |
Zimbabwean President Urges Countrymen to Remain Calm |
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Zimbabwean President Mugabe on Sunday urged the nation to remain calm and asked youths not to beat up people in retaliation to the murder of Cain Nkala, leader of pro-government war veterans in Bulawayo province, whose decomposed body was found last week.
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Zimbabwean President Mugabe on Sunday urged the nation to remain calm and asked youths not to beat up people in retaliation to the murder of Cain Nkala, leader of pro-government war veterans in Bulawayo province, whose decomposed body was found last week.
"Let us not allow emotions to overwhelm us. Let us not take the curse of the terrorists and go wild attacking people," Mugabe said at the funeral of Nkala at the National Heroes Acre in Harare.
He said the murder of Nkala was a bloody outcome of an orchestrated, wider and carefully planned terrorist plot by internal and external enemy forces.
"With plenty of funding from some commercial farmers and organizations like the Westminster Foundation, which gets its dirty money from the British Labor Party, the Conservative and Liberal Parties and the government of Tony Blair, these sponsored terrorist forces of destruction in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) are corrupting and ruining the youths at colleges and elsewhere," said Mugabe
He said they were showering youths with donor trinkets, drink and drugs in order to use them as cannon fodder in terrorist fights not just against the Zimbabwe African National Union-patriotic Front (NANU-PF) but against the gains of independence.
Mugabe said apart from widespread media reports of the MDC terrorist training camps on commercial farms outside borders of Zimbabwe and oversees, there had been numerous cases of kidnapping and assault of ZANU-PF members by the MDC terrorists.
He said the MDC and the world had been given a rude awakening by the brutal circumstances surrounding the death of Nkala.
He said the government would not allow rebels and the MDC criminal elements who are agents of external forces to ruin Zimbabwe.
Mugabe said that the people of Zimbabwe have the power to guard their freedom and sovereignty.
It was said that Nkala was abducted from his Magwegwe West home in Bulawayo by the suspected MDC gun-men. He was later tortured and killed using a shoe-laces and was buried in a shallow grave at Norwood Farm near Solusi University, 50 kilometers outside Bulawayo.
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