February 22, 2008:

To :

President Robert Mugabe :

c/o Ambassador Machivenyika Mapuranga.

Zimbabwe Embassy

Washington DC

We have noted with great concern the rapidly deteriorating socioeconomic conditions in Zimbabwe, and caused primarily by the crisis of governance in your regime, especially since 2000.

Everything that could possibly go wrong has gone wrong in Zimbabwe.

You have consistently blamed the country’s problems on what you call sanctions from, among others, Britain and America.  But evidence and the experience of the Zimbabweans point an unequivocal finger at your style of bad governance as the root cause of the rampant state of dilapidation.

About 4 million Zimbabweans, or one quarter of the country’s population, have fled the country. But the Zimbabweans in Diaspora did not forfeit their right to vote.

GLOBAL ZIMBABWE forum is calling upon  you, your party and your government to take immediate and effective measures to:

1. ALLOW Zimbabweans in Diaspora to vote;
2. RESPECT and IMPLEMENT the SADC protocol for conducting elections;
3. IMPLEMENT before elections the agreements so far reached with the opposition Movement for Democratic Change;
4. POSTPONE elections to at least June to allow for the leveling of the playing field for elections;
5. ALLOW members of the opposition movement and civil society to hold their rallies and protests without harassment and assaults from the police and army.
6. ALLOW international observers under the auspices of the United Nations to come to monitor the elections.