3 Reasons Why Australia Banned The Australian Cricket Team To Tour Zimbabwe?
24 November 2009
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Hi all, I’m doing an assingment for English (I have to write an editorial) and what i need now is at least three reasons why Australia banned the cricket team to tour zimbabwe. I have one
Please help
John Howard and the liberals are behind in the opinion polls. Its an election stunt and nothing more.
The Australian government couldn’t give a rats about human rights abuses. Domestic politics is the only reason John Howard has sought to stop the Australian Cricket team visiting Zimbabwe. When John Howard was ahead in the polls last time the Australian Cricket team played Zimbabwe he didn’t do anything, and left the decision up to Cricket Australia.
Mogabe is a dictator.
Mogabe & george w bush have had a falling out over the price of zebra meat so little johnny howard is siding with his
b/friend.
Mogabe has broken UN sanctions on more than one occassion so Australia is not playing cricket (& hopefully no
other sport) in Zimbabwe in a stand with the UN.
The specific reason is that the Aust Govt (rightly) believe that the self imposed dictator Mugabe will use the Tour as a political propaganda exercise (internally and abroad) to show that he and his brutal regime is popular and has international support.
It is also a protest against the appalling human rights record that Zimbabwe has, again at the hands of the dictator himself. Political opponents to Mugabe being physically beaten and brutalised, Locked up in jail and intimidated and silenced by speaking out by his hench men.
The interesting twist is because of the banned Cricket tour – does Australia also pull out of the Beijing Olympics next year as demonstration against Human Rights abuses in China?
The ban is like a ‘sanction’ for violations of rights as stipulated by UN conventions; by which Zimbabwe have signed!
(i.e. declaration of human rights/movements/sovereignty etc)
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