WOZA gewinnt den Robert F. Kennedy - Menschenrechtspreis

" The constitutional reform process is currently stalled in Zimbabwe.
Little has been done under the Global Political Agreement to ensure there is a secure environment for people to participate in this process and that they can freely say what they want to be included in the content of our new constitution.
We are extremely worried that the structures of violence organized during the presidential run-off last year are currently being reinstated, to intimidate us into silence, and allow the fast-tracking of the so-called 'Kariba Draft' of the constitution, endorsed by the political parties. Why is this money being spent for violence instead of funding the constitutional reform? "

Die Zeremonie nahm der Präsident der USA, Obama, als Anlaß zu einer scharfen Kritik an Zimbabwes Präsident Mugabe:

" (...)In the end, history has a clear direction -- and it is not the way of those who arrest women and babies for singing in the streets. It's not the way of those who starve and silence their own people, and cling to power by threat of force. (...)"

Weitere Reden und Kommentare zu der Verleihung auf den Seiten des Robert F. Kennedy Centers.