Foreign Affairs Minister, Cde Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, says the recent revelations by wikileaks website on former US Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Christopher Dell’s projects and operations to effect regime change in the country, are just but a tip of the iceberg.
In an interview with the ZBC News in Harare on Monday, Cde Mumbengegwi said nearly 3 000 of the 250 000 wikileaks cables that have been exposed to the world, are on Zimbabwe.
“This is not a new story, but we as Zanu-PF have always talked about it. Some people thought that it was a lie, but the wikileaks have exposed the west’s regime change agenda in Zimbabwe,” said Cde Mumbengegwi.
In his report entitled, "The End is Nigh," former US Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Christopher Dell sheds light on the US regime change strategy in Zimbabwe, and its hand in the 2008 harmonised elections.
His advice to the US State Department at the time was: "Stay the course and prepare for change in Zimbabwe. Our policy is working and it's helping to drive change here. What is required is simply the grit, determination and focus to see this through. Then, when the changes finally come, we must be ready to move quickly to help consolidate the new dispensation."
After considering various regime change scenarios, Mr Dell's cables revealed that fuel and food shortages were to be used as a tool for regime change.
Fuel and food shortages prompted Mr Dell to say "for the first time, the President is under intensifying pressure simultaneously on the economic, political and international fronts" and that President Mugabe was "running out of options."
He said it was up to the US "once again, to take the lead, to say and do the hard things."
The MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, repeated the same call for international supervision during his campaign in 2007-8.
Minister Mumbengegwi said the revelations have shown clearly to the world including to Zimbabweans and their allies in SADC, the African Union and other organisations that support Zimbabwe that the close collaboration between the MDC-T and the west seeks to reverse the gains of Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle.
“The people who colonised us for nearly a century want to come back to rule us again and loot our natural resources. With these wikileaks revelations, no one doubts that there are people in our country, who are working in collaboration with those who want to recolonise us and loot our resources,” said Cde Mumbengegwi.
Cde Mumbengegwi said Mr Dell’s admission that he gave money to support the MDC-T to effect regime change in Zimbabwe is a gross violation of the Vienna Convention, which is against interference in the internal affairs of a host country by a diplomat of another country.
He said Zimbabwe will not tolerate any interference in its internal affairs by any country no matter how powerful, adding that Mr Dell’s utterances on wikileaks is clear evidence that an American diplomat violated Zimbabwean law.
Minister Mumbengegwi noted that the revelations are vindication to Zanu-PF, which has been telling its allies that the MDC is working in cahoots with foreigners to destabilise Zimbabwe.
In another related development, America’s regime change operations in Zimbabwe over the past 3 years were again exposed following the leaking of a fiscal year 2010 mission strategic plan from the US embassy in Harare.
Under the plan, the embassy requested some US$140 million for the clandestine project in which a 3 pronged approach was to be used to try and effect regime change in Zimbabwe.
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