President Obama Do The Right Thing: Lift Zimbabwe Sanctions Now

The recent 2013 Presidential and Parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe where the people re-elected President Robert Mugabe by over 65% and returned the ZANU-PF political party to an overwhelming majority rule in parliament was certified by the African Union’s Election Observer Team as free, fair, without violence or irregularities.

In this light, the African Union, SADC, Non-Aligned Movement consisting of 103 countries and the United Nations, along with many and various other international organizations and groupings, even within the U.S. and Western European countries, have called for the lifting of the “illegal” sanctions.

Here in the U.S. the December 12th Movement International Secretariat has consistently called attention to the injustice of ZDERA and the human rights abuses it has brought upon the people of Zimbabwe where sanctions have denied medicine, medical supplies, agricultural supplies and fertilizers, access to international aid and loans, while creating the conditions for a Cholera epidemic, food shortages and hyperinflation.

The ZDERA legislation gives the President of the United States through executive order and certification the power to lift the illegal sanctions against Zimbabwe and join the international community in respecting the people of Zimbabwe and the African Union electoral processes.

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