37 ZANU PF, adding that the traditional leaders should know “which side their bread is buttered”. He went on to say “We have advised all chiefs in Chiredzi south to campaign for the ruling party. We have also ordered them that they should consider only ZANU PF supporters on programmes initiated by the government (including food aid). We cannot afford to continue feeding the enemy because they are sellouts,” he added, virtually confirming the use of food aid as a political weapon to coerce villagers to support the governing party.” (Source: Zim Online Wednesday 31 January 2007) Non-governmental organisations Statement by Patrick Chinamasa to the UN Human Rights Council in June 2006 Chinamasa claimed civic groups operating in Zimbabwe are set up and financed by developed countries as instruments of their foreign policy. He went on to say: “Their objectives include destabilisation and interference with the evolution of our political processes, undermining our sovereignty, creating and sustaining opposition groups that have no local support base, and promoting disaffection and hostility among the local population against their popularly elected government.” Human rights Statement by Robert Mugabe On 20 April 1989, addressing the second judicial colloquium on the domestic application of international human rights norms, held in Harare. “Human rights and fundamental freedoms allow us fully to develop and use our human qualities, intelligence, talents and conscience to satisfy our spiritual and other needs. It follows, therefore, that the denial of human rights and fundamental freedoms is not only an individual and personal tragedy but also creates conditions of social and political unrest, sowing seeds of violence and conflict within and between societies and nations.” Their words condemn them: The language of violence, intolerance and despotism in Zimbabwe.