Britain wants to maintain stranglehold on Zimbabwe
Posted: Tuesday, April 9, 2002

By Lovemore Mataire

WHEN the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cde Stan Mudenge, concluded that by continuously reneging on its commitment to the Abuja agreement and ganging up against the country, Britain was attempting to recolonise Zimbabwe many sceptics did not take his assertions seriously.

Several months down the line the real motives of the British have now come out in the open as revealed by a senior aide to Mr Tony Blair who called for a return to colonialism.

British foreign affairs adviser Robert Cooper was quoted in the British Mirror saying the West needed to invent a new kind of imperialism.

"The opportunities, perhaps even the need for colonisation, is as great as it ever was in the 19th century," he said.

If there were some people who were doubtful about the real intentions of the British in Zimbabwe then Mr Cooper’s statements must convince them, that the former colonial master does not want to let go of his stranglehold on Zimbabwe.

The arrogance of the British and its imperialist expansionist policy was summed up when Mr Cooper further added: "The weak will need the strong and the strong still need an orderly world. A world in which the efficient and the well-governed export stability and liberty, which is open for investment and growth, seems eminently desirable."

Unashamedly, the foreign affairs adviser said Afghanistan showed what could happen if the West did not intervene in the Third World. Terrorists were using failed states as bases to attack "orderly" nations. MORE 

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