If you guy know kiswahili one could conclude that Unaogopa kivuli chako. What did you expect President Kikwete to say on such a day? Agriculture? Why do you rekate his words with lake Nyasa? Soon you wil be reporting the inagural seremony of a ship to ply on Tanzanian side of lake Nyasa. We wil make sure even your Chief of Defence Force is invited
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From: Charles Banda <chasbanda@gmail.com>
To: <wanabidii@googlegroups.com>
Date: Saturday, July 27, 2013 7:28:15 PM GMT+0300
Subject: [wanabidii] Tanzania fire must be met with fire on Lake Malawi row
Tanzania is sabre-rattling and palpably and loudly beating the drums of war
against peaceful Malawi over our jewel in the crown–Lake Malawi and this is
beingchampioned by no lesser mortal than President Jikaya Kikwete-himself.
The occasion could not have been grander to whip up emotions and put
nationalistic energies on a collision course for war against Malawi over
Lake Malawi than the celebration of Tanzania hero's day-on Thursday-when
Kikwete told his compatriots that his armed forces are ready to protect the
country against any foreign threats.
But-Kikwete's outbursts and intimidation, coming at a time when Sadc
mediation, led by former Mozambican president Joachim Chissano and former
South African president Thabo Mbeki, should not be come as a surprise.
The warmongering is a simply a sign of the fact that-Tanzania knows it has
no chance in hell of getting even an inch of Lake Malawi if a more
civilised way of dealing with the matter is employed-hence the empty
threats of using force to get half of our lake even when historical
treaties governing the border say otherwise.
But as Chinua Achebe once intimated,-when a man threatens to defecate or
indeed defecates into your house, you do not smile at him but simply break
his neck.-Tanzania is threatening to do more and it is to take half of the
house by force of violence.
But we, at-Nyasa Times, say this naked aggression should not be allowed to
stand unchallenged and fire must be met with fire.
As so many sober-minded commentators have argued times without number,
Malawi got a raw deal from the 1884-85 Berlin Conference during which
European powers decided to partition Africa and its resources among
themselves.
The country is simply grotesquely squeezed in the hand of some Colossus
that are its neighbours that it cannot breathe through the unfair
boundaries imposed on its people by European rulers that even separated
families.
Yet despite this clear historical imbalance and injustice, Malawi has
remained meek and peaceful throughout the years when the right course of
action would have been attempts to destabilise its neighbours with a view
to create more living space for its people.
But it seems this has been taken as a weakness by Tanzania and it has
decided to throw its weight around to bully Malawi into submission by use
of its so called military might to give up what truly belongs to us—Lake
Malawi.
It is in this regard that we call upon our leaders in government for once
to rise up and deal with this naked aggression once and for all.
We spend billions of kwachas every year running and equipping our army with
modern hardware. Perhaps time has come for that investment to be put to
productive use.
Army Commander General Henry Odillo is on record to have assured Malawians
to sleep in peace over Lake Malawi, saying his boys and girls are ready to
defend the territorial integrity of the nation.To him, we say time has come
to make good of that assurance to Malawians.
Lake Malawi belongs to Malawi in its whole entirely and this is backed by
historical records that emanated from the Partition of Africa. It is our
only crown in jewel and no amount of intimidation should be entertained to
give it up and satisfy dangerous ambitions of bloodthirsty leaders like
Kikwete who thinks his country's triumph over a twisted mind like Ugandan
Idi Amini many years ago should be used as a launch pad for aggression
against Malawi over what truly belong to her.
The die is cast and the country must fight to the bitter end. Tanzanian
fire must be met with fire.
Tanzania fire must be met with fire on Lake Malawi row: Editorial | Malawi
Nyasa Times - Malawi breaking news in
Malawi<http://www.nyasatimes.com/2013/07/27/tanzania-fire-must-be-met-with-fire-on-lake-malawi-row-editorial/>
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