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Hamad: Stop envying the falling Orange Revolution in Ukraine
2005-11-15 07:14:06
By Guardian Reporter
People often say that what you speak is what you think and eventually the same become part of your life.
To compliment it, the hero you admire is the one whose footsteps you follow.
So does Seif Sharrif Hamad want to be like the falling Victor Ushchenko who is now surrendering the Ukraine to Western carnivores of democracy?
Civic United Front (CUF) secretary, Seif Shariff Hamad warned of a Ukraine-style revolution in Nairobi on the month of September in case ruling party CCM rigs the just ended elections.
Now this statement has been raising the tension in Tanzania’s politically volatile semi-autonomous state just a few days after Shariff Hamad declared that the election was rigged.
In Nairobi, Shariff Hamad stated that if the elections conditions were not met as was the case on 30 October, then Zanzibar will follow example of Ukraine popularly known as ’Orange Revolution’.
He says that because the elections were rigged once again, the people will rise and will have no choice, but to express their dissatisfaction \”in the only way we know-through peaceful demonstrations.\”
Just to look A year after the ’orange revolution’ (that Hamad seem to envy) that swept him to power, Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko is visibly tired, bitter about his shattered revolutionary team, and as determined as ever to lead the ex-Soviet nation on a pro-Western course.
So when people voted Yushchenko, many were probably voting for a package - Yushchenko and Tymoshenko, and their promise of a new free, democratic Ukraine.
Now in Ukraine there is increasing evidence of economic disruption after Orange Revolution.
According to local media reports, the country’s foreign trade revenue is falling by some $4m per day, and there are warnings that a shortage of hard currency could soon hit the state budget.
The number of freight Lorries entering the country has reportedly dropped to one third of its usual level.
”Now the only alternative for the Ukraine is to join NATO and it is sad to say that if it will adopt Western style of democratization that has proved failure in Afghanistan, then Ukraine will regret in the future incidences, Novynosky the economic analysts in Ukraine believe so.
Only 18% on the Western Ukraine voted and agreed on joining NATO and 5% only accepted in the East, but despite of the majority denial to join the NATO, Ushchenko has decide to join it while backed by USA and UK, the countries which pretend to be democratizing agent.
USA and it’s alies in Europe has trapped the Ukraine in the name of terrorism, the same thing that has ruined Afghanistan and Iraq through the implementation of ’false Western Democracies’.
USA and UK told the media in Ukraine that if Ukraine does join NATO, it will enable the alliance to control its weapons exports and to prevent them falling into the hands of hostile states or terrorist groups.
False democratization of Western countries has never ever played positive role elsewhere in the World.
In Afghanistan where USA thought to bring democracies and hence development, Bush administration, already under fire for under-funding the rebuilding of Afghanistan and permitting that country’s warlords to retain their power, is now facing charges that it is allowing Afghan drug production to boom.
Now Afghan is the number one opium producer, worse that when the Talebanese were in power, what a Western Democracy?
Hamad must know that democracy is not a switch, it is a process. It is not just about the ballot box.
You can have a constitution that is second to none, but if you don’t have the institutions civil society, the rule of law and the human rights underpin, it won’t work.
Getting to the democracy is an evolutionary process. A thing like corruption is not just about money, it is people thinking they are entitled to a government job.
For an island like Zanzibar where family and regions connections (Pemba and Unguja) have always counted so much, there is some way to go.
Then having divisive politics in Zanzibar like it is now, there is a way to go.
In fact, the people of Pemba were not poorer than other Tanzanians.
The per capita GDP of Zanzibar, which takes into account Unguja and Pemba is higher than that of Tanzania Mainland.
Nevertheless, Seif Sharif Hamad politics, like that of Victor Ushchenko whose politics of ’Orange Revolution style’he so much admires, is of division and spreads among the people of Pemba.
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