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CCC MP Urges Government To Ratify UN Convention Against Enforced Disappearances

11 months agoThu, 18 Apr 2024 05:52:08 GMT
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CCC MP Urges Government To Ratify UN Convention Against Enforced Disappearances

Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MP, Prosper Mutseyami, has urged the government to accede to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances (ICPPED) to stop the culture of State-sponsored abductions.

ICPPED is an international human rights instrument established by the United Nations to prevent enforced disappearances, which, as defined in international law, constitute a crime against humanity.

“Enforced Disappearance” is defined as the arrest, detention, abduction, or any other form of deprivation of liberty by agents of the State or by persons or groups acting with the authorization, support, or acquiescence of the State.

This is followed by a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or by concealment of the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person, which places such a person outside the protection of the law.

Mutseyami, who is the MP for Dangamvura, made the call in the National Assembly while raising a point of national interest on Thursday. Said Mutseyami (via NewsDay):

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My point of national importance is that we have an International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances on the 30th of August, 2024. Zimbabwe has neither signed nor acceded to the convention.

This convention applies to the victims who would have died as a result of the disaster, like Cyclone Idai, it applies as well to enforced disappearances like we have situations we had, of people like Itai Dzamara, Patrick Nabenyama, and many others who passed on then.

My appeal, through your office, is to find means as to how we can come up with the motivation for our government to accede to this convention since I believe it is an important convention which applies to us as a country.

Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda ruled:

We will engage the relevant minister and find out the modalities on how to handle your request.

Nabanyama, who was a polling agent for the current Mayor of Bulawayo David Coltart in the June 2000 parliamentary elections, was reportedly kidnapped by suspected State security agents and war veterans from his home in Bulawayo.

He was never seen again and was in August 2010 declared dead by the courts.

Dzamara was a journalist-cum political activist who was snatched from a barbershop in Harare’s Glen View suburb by suspected State security agents on March 9, 2015.

The day before his enforced disappearance, Dzamara had addressed a rally in Harare where he called for mass action to address the deteriorating economic conditions.

In 2015, High Court judge Justice David Mangota ordered the government “to do all things necessary to determine Itai Dzamara’s whereabouts.”

However, the government has failed to give regular updates on Dzamara’s fate.

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22 Comments

Anonymous · 11 months ago
Kurotomoka inenge sign ye NGOZI off topic dzacho
bambo · 11 months ago
it's like comment section ye pindula has being hijacked by a group .
Zvakurwadza papi munhu wa chamisa · 11 months ago
Muchaita rini chimwe chi group chenyu tigokusvasvangai Mh@t@ dzevanhu
🏋️🕺⛹️ · 11 months ago
vanhu ndevamwari chamisa haana kusika munhu
Chicken 🐓 · 11 months ago
The group is not hijacked but most people in the group are now seeing the truth and the need for us to be ourselves not images of ourselves. Others are now able to read between the lines and they don't support a story that is not supportable.
shadows · 11 months ago
haaa ccc tinyararirei apo. first put your house in order. munotaurei zvamunoziva. chamisa akatiza Kare apa hona mp wacho anowawata akaisa pic yachamisa kugotsi kwake. makapusa kuswero shandiswa newest muchiita mastaged abductions enyu iwayo.
bambo · 11 months ago
it's like comment section ye pindula has being hijacked by a group of varakashi . instead of commenting of the topic popinzwa mazita emamwe mapato kusaziva kuti you are marketing them vanhu vanyerere asi they known the truth who they want. .
baba jukwa · 11 months ago
@bambo taura zvako ZANU. haisi yekutombo tevedzera yaka zara makororo ne mhondi saka zvimwe ndezve. kuteerera wosiya vachipengereka vega zvavo. if l may ask ndiani akaponda Masaya
Judas is carrot · 11 months ago
Iwe bambo msat@ny0ko.siyana nesu. Ita zva Chamisa wako wega zvechi party chibodyiwa
fugu pfeee · 11 months ago
akapondwa nemamwe ma ccc.
fugu pfeee · 11 months ago
udzayi chamisa anoita ma staged abductions
Chicken 🐔 · 11 months ago
There is something embarrassing on the CCC organization. Why are you still using the portrait of someone who deserted. Let's put this house in order please. Kana kuisa picture redombo or muti chaiwo. Background yaShefu yakazara mapics aVaChamisa.
fugu pfeee · 11 months ago
musoro ne face yemunhu akatiza iyeye ichashanda ku ccc kusvika kare. iye akatiza nema che.n.de chete
RIP Daiton Somanje. Its been 9 years. · 11 months ago
In Zimbabwe there are no disappearances. Saying there is state sponsorship of what never exists is absurd
Juda Cock · 11 months ago
Dzamara wanted to go to a ****ty country called Uzbekistan. All he needed was to attack the governement so that he could secure an asylum. He's herding cammels in Asia. There was no abduction. He did not disappear. He fled via Mozambique
fugu pfeee · 11 months ago
une kachokwadi hako
Tee · 11 months ago
Vakatomuona achi crosser boarder achipinda mu Mozambique macho here???????
Appah · 11 months ago
muchava maZanu henyu vanoku suppotai ndo vanopenga
🏋️🕺⛹️ · 11 months ago
Jonathan Moyo akati Dzamara akaenda kuSA achibvunzwa pa hardtalk gore riye, what a shame
. · 11 months ago
Jonathan Moyo akati Dzamara akaenda kuSA achibvunzwa pa hardtalk gore riye
State Agent · 11 months ago
Hamusati matanga Kupera, muchamamá chete kusvika ma zanu Zanu

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