Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)

I welcome the motion, which Sinn Féin will support, and I congratulate the Members who put the issue on the Dáil agenda. My party welcomes the acknowledgement of the importance of the African Union and the South African Development Community taking a lead in the search for a peaceful solution. Zimbabwe's history of colonisation and oppression at the hands of Britain means it is all too easy for the Mugabe regime to opportunistically represent protests from European or American governments or organisations as "western imperialism". Zimbabweans have suffered at the hands of western imperialism for long enough.

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