vendredi 18 avril 2008

Zimbabwe : la tension monte !


Depuis les élections il y a deux semaines, l'attente se fait longue et la tension monte un peu plus tous les jours ! J’ai régulièrement des informations, principalement par le site web de la BBC qui est le mieux informé sur le sujet. J’ai aussi par le canal de Foi et Lumière quelques informations de l’intérieur du pays…
Les vétérans de la guerre d’indépendance (ou prétendus tels) ont repris du service et organisent des démonstrations d’intimidation envers les quelques rares fermiers blancs qui sont restés au Zimbabwe. Je vous joins deux témoignages :

At 3.30pm today (Saturday), a lorry load of warvets arrived at our gate to take over our land, equipment and cattle. It is now 6pm and they have been singing their war songs at our gate and more and more of them have arrived. We managed to get our daughter and baby to town and for now it is just the two of us and our dogs in the house, now on the farm.


I have spoken to my mum. She says that the war vets have told the family that there are to be 2 dead farmers in their province by Monday – one of them being my uncle. She also said that another white farmer in the Masvingo district had been stoned by war vets on Saturday. He is alive but she does not know the seriousness of his injuries.

Les comptages et recomptages des voix aux élections n’en finissent plus, des armes seraient en train d’arriver de Chine via Durban (où les dockers se sont mis en grève et refusent de décharger cette cargaison), les appels au secours et demandes de prière plus pressantes. Je vous les transmet pour que vous puissiez vous unir avec eux par la prière :

GOD IS THE ANSWER AND PRAYER IS THE ONLY WAY FOR ZIMBABWE!
IN VIEW OF THE CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS IN ZIMBABWE WE ARE ORGANISING A DAILY ONE MINUTE PRAYER TIME AT 8 A.M. OR 1 P.M. OR 8.00 P.M. AT ANY ONE OF THESE TIMES, PLEASE STOP WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING AND SPEND THAT ONE MINUTE PRAYING FOR GOD TO INTERVENE IN THE AFFAIRS OF OUR COUNTRY.
SOMEONE SAID IF CHRISTIANS REALLY UNDERSTOOD THE FULL EXTENT OF THE POWER WE HAVE AVAILABLE THROUGH PRAYER, WE MIGHT BE SPEECHLESS.
OUR PRAYERS ARE THE MOST POWERFUL ASSET WE HAVE. TOGETHER. WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
IF YOU KNOW ANY OTHER CHRISTIAN BROTHER AND SISTER WHO WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS POWERFUL EXERCISE, PLEASE PASS THIS ALONG.
THANK YOU,
Zimbabwe 24-hour Solidarity Vigil

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