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Benny Tsododo Correspondent
The way the United States and the European Union are quick to condemn purported human rights abuses in other countries, particularly Zimbabwe, could fool anyone to believe that they are paragons of democracy, yet events in their own backyards and overseas prove otherwise.

These Western hypocrites recently pounced on Zimbabwe, accusing it of failing to investigate alleged cases of human rights abuses and addressing issues on democracy.

Two weeks ago, a US delegation consisting of the US Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Shannon Smith and the US Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour, Steven Feldstein, asked Zimbabwe to address purported human rights abuses in the country and account for the alleged disappearance of activist, Itai Dzamara.

Reading from the same script, the EU Parliament on 18 May 2015 adopted a resolution which partly read: “EU urges the Government of Zimbabwe to guarantee the safety of human rights defenders and create an enabling environment for all people to enjoy their right to freedom of expression, association and assembly.”

It also called on Government to immediately comply with a High Court order which instructed the Minister of Home Affairs, Police Commissioner General and the Director General of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) to do everything necessary to determine the whereabouts of Dzamara.

Ignoring all facts on the ground and preferring to squeeze as much political mileage from the Dzamara issue, the EU and the US chose to posture as the ultimate defenders of democracy and human rights in the world, which they are not.

They conveniently ignored what is taking place on the ground where Government, through the police, is sincerely leading investigations into the Dzamara case.

On numerous occasions, the police have appealed for information on the whereabouts of Dzamara.

Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Ziyambi Ziyambi even recently gave feedback in Parliament, telling parliamentarians that Government was doing everything possible to resolve the Dzamara issue.

However, the EU and the US are not interested in actual events taking place in Zimbabwe but are eager to create human rights abuses that serve their regime change purposes.

The imperial forces have chosen to believe false claims by opposition and civil society functionaries that Government is responsible for the disappearance of Dzamara.

For them, the Dzamara case can only be resolved if Government confesses to kidnapping him.

These self-anointed world policemen would rather turn a blind eye to blatant human rights abuses in their own backyards and elsewhere in the world, only to concoct charges of human rights abuses against Zimbabwe and escalate them.

It is rather hypocritical for the US to pretend to be a defender of human rights at a time its police have been exposed for deliberately targeting, brutalizing and killing unarmed black African-American men in a barefaced racist manner.

Appalling reports from Baltimore, Ferguson, Missouri and other places in the US tell us a sad story of a world power that is pouncing on innocent male African-Americans whose major crime is the colour of their skin.

Elsewhere in the world, the EU and the US have made it a policy to turn a blind eye to flagrant human rights atrocities globally perpetrated by their allies.

Real and unmasked atrocities are being perpetrated by countries such as Israel and Egypt, yet they are annually rewarded and pampered with huge military aid to further empower them to kill more innocent civilians opposed to their regimes.

Israel is daily subjecting Palestinians to extreme cruelty using an apartheid regime that has crippled health and social infrastructure in Palestine, denying its people access to a better life.

At will, Israel can at any time choose to carry out military incursions into Palestinian territories, indiscriminately bombing, maiming and killing innocent children and women yet the US and EU remain mum and look the other way.

Similarly, the same Western nations remained mute when Africans were lately savaged in South Africa in callous xenophobic attacks that left the whole world shell-shocked.

Not a squeal of disapproval was heard from the supposed human rights defenders, yet they are quick to rant and froth on spurious claims of human rights abuses in Zimbabwe.