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I watched Tabz ‘s interview on NTV and it left me deeply disturbed. No one whether from NRM or PLU should ever support or defend the torture of suspects. President Yoweri K Museveni himself has repeatedly warned against it: torture destroys good cases because courts cannot accept evidence obtained... show more
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![US EMBASSY IN HARARE POSTS BALD TORTURE ALLEGATIONS ON X WITH NO SUPPORTING EVIDENCE IN A RECKLESS MISINFORMATION AND DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN U.S. Embassy Zimbabwe U.S. Embassy Harare “As #Zimbabwewelcomes its neighbors for the #SADC summit, the United States affirms its support for SADC's goal to achieve economic development, peace & security. Intimidation, torture & prolonged pre-trial detention of Zimbabwean citizens run counter to these principles,” – posted on X by the US Embassy in Harare on 15 August 2024. COMMENT Where is the evidence? A post like the one above must necessarily refer to attach the evidence of the alleged torture. Otherwise, wherever and whenever interrogation techniques that use torture and the practice of prolonged pretrial or no trial detention are practised; they're wrong, abominable, and unacceptable because they’re inherently inhuman; regardless of who practices them, whom they're practised against or why they're practised. The attached and above referenced post shared by U.S. Embassy Harare on this platform in light of the 44th Ordinary Sadc Summit set for today in Harare is opportunistic, deceitful, and hypocritical self-fulfilling US propaganda, which U.S. Embassy Harare believes should taken for what it claims simply because it's coming from America. At face value, the post purports to affirm US “support for SADC's goal to achieve economic development, peace & security”. But this ‘support’ is neither proven nor apparent, it is merely claimed and asserted. More particularly revealing is that the US affirmation of its purported “support for SADC's goal to achieve economic development, peace & security” is done politically, insincerely, dishonestly and deceitfully; apparently to enable the U.S. Embassy Harare to opportunistically and hypocritically allege - without citing or presenting any iota of evidence – that there’s "intimidation, torture & prolonged pre-trial detention of Zimbabwean citizens"; which the Embassy self-righteously and arrogantly says "run counter to these [Sadc] principles". Since torture is a crime against humanity, allegations thereof should be taken seriously by the relevant authorities wherever and whenever they’re made. For this reason, those who make allegations of torture or any crime against humanity, have a duty and an obligation to backup or support their allegations with evidence that speaks for itself beyond prima facie disputation. The allegations must be substantive, and proven; they should not be mere claims that are asserted arrogantly, politically, opportunistically and hypocritically without any corroborated evidence. Just because the U.S. Embassy Harare is in Harare, which this week is hosting the 44th Ordinary SADC Summit should not cause the Embassy to be so brazenly and arrogantly opportunistic and hypocritical to the reckless point of pretending to be ignorant of indubitable facts about torture and prolonged pre-trial detention in the US and the US support of the worst of the same in apartheid Israel. For example, and for the sake of perspective, three points are important to keep in mind: (i) The US is notorious for keeping 'terrorist' suspects and other accused persons in prolonged pretrial detention within and outside the US — including through rendition—and for 'lawfully' torturing the suspects using despicable and dehumanising techniques like waterboarding and rectal rehydration. (ii) US acts of aiding and abetting the prolonged pretrial and no trial detention, and the rampant dehumanising torture and gruesome murder of Palestinians by apartheid Israel, virtually on an hourly basis across the illegally occupied Palestinian Territories are a matter of documented common cause. (ii) The US has a double-faced posture on torture: on the one hand, it uses torture as its interrogation technique of choice; on the other hand, the US uses torture allegations often with no supporting evidence, as a propaganda weapon to smear and stigmatise targeted countries. Now, given that torture and prolonged pretrial and no trial detention are wrong, abominable, and inhuman wherever and whenever they are practised; and given that the US is notorious for practising torture and prolonged pretrial and no trial detention; and further given that the US is notorious for aiding and abetting torture; cold blooded murder and prolonged pretrial and no trial detention of Palestinians in apartheid Israel; where on earth does the U.S. Embassy Harare derive any moral authority to preach or pontificate about torture and prolonged pretrial detention to SADC Secretariat or to anyone else anywhere in the world, for that matter? The moral question is very important, especially since both the US and Israel routinely justify their dehumanising and gruesome torture techniques on 'legal' grounds; they oxymoronically claim that their torture is ‘legal’. For example, during her Senate confirmation hearings, Gina Haspel - CIA Director under the presidency of Donald Trump from 21 May 2018 to 20 January 2021 - was repeatedly asked by then Senator Kamala Harris, and now the Democratic Party presidential candidate in the November 2024 elections; whether she [Gina Haspel] believed that the CIA’s interrogation [torture] techniques, like waterboarding, were immoral. Haspel repeatedly declined to answer. Tellingly and shockingly, Kamala Harris herself sought to sanitise the CIA’s use of torture interrogation techniques by referring to them as "previous interrogation techniques", falsely presenting them as a thing of the past; and, in any event, outrageously casting them as having been 'legal' but 'not moral'; yet the CIA torture interrogation techniques are illegal because torture is a crime against humanity under international law. Regarding the U.S. Embassy Harare post in question, as a bottom line, there's a critical and urgent need for a better, non-opportunistic, non-holier than thou and more responsible approach for dealing with torture as a reprehensible and unacceptable interrogation technique; than what the U.S. Embassy Harare opportunistically, deceitfully and hypocritically displays on its post. It bears reiterating with great emphasis that what is wrong with the U.S. Embassy Harare post is that it makes serious allegations of torture without providing any evidence of the alleged torture. There’s no evidence at all, save for bald allegations. Somehow, Sadc and everyone else targeted by the US Embassy post is supposed to take and believe the torture allegations purely and only on the basis that the allegations are being made by the US, using the old age trick that if you want to kill a dog, just allege that it has rabies. But, of course experience tells an entirely different story with unassailable proof that the US actually lies routinely, with the indescribably embarrassing case in point being the wildly false 2002 US claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction; which led to the barbaric 2003 US invasion of Iraq to overthrow Hussein with the consequence of literally destroying Iraq. There’s an important background that explains the U.S. Embassy Harare post under the spotlight. In the run up to today’s 44th Ordinary Sadc Summit in Harare, the US Embassy started mobilising its ‘assets’ to get them to make noise that the summit should reactivate the now archived 2023 Sadc Elections Observer Mission (SEOM) report on the 2023 harmonised general elections, hoping to discredit and derail Zimbabwe’s assumption of Sadc chairmanship. ‘Assets’ in this case are individuals linked to opposition political parties, sections of the media and civil society, etc., that the US funds or sponsors to carry out its psychological [propaganda] operations against a targeted country; under the cover of its diplomatic status. In mobilising its ‘assets’ in Harare to orchestrate trouble around the 44th Ordinary Sadc Summit in Harare, the U.S. Embassy Harare took advantage of the unfortunate fact that the state of opposition politics in Zimbabwe today is comatose. Structurally and objectively speaking, there are no opposition parties in Zimbabwe. All there is are some opposition and NGO individuals, among whom the overwhelming majority are seen and treated by the U.S. Embassy Harare as its ‘assets’. Against this backdrop, and working in cahoots with its networks of merchants of regime change in southern Africa which includes the likes of the Oppenheimer funded Brenthurst Foundation, the U.S. Embassy Harare has become the convener and coordinator of its ‘assets’ — whom it let loose and deployed inside Zimbabwe, in South Africa and elsewhere including overseas — in the run up to today’s 44th Ordinary Sadc Summit and used to peddle its torture claims without putting any compelling evidence. With no structured and organised opposition politics, and with a proliferation of one-man and one-woman briefcase NGOs; as is the situation in Zimbabwe today, it has been relatively easy for the U.S. Embassy Harare to use its ‘assets’ [individuals] to peddle its unproven allegations; focussed on today’s 44th Ordinary Sadc Summit, which became a lucrative event for US ‘assets’. The rest is history, yet to be told. Meanwhile, and because torture is a crime against humanity, allegations of torture must not be political or opportunistic propaganda, they must be real and evidential; based on proven and verifiable evidence; especially when they’re made by an entity such as the U.S. Embassy Harare, an embassy of a superpower!](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1824712072535400937/ext_tw_video_thumb/1824470464380432384/pu/img/zFWdG3A5N60Wks-2.jpg)
