Who Do They Represent?

On my blog of June 5, 2010, titled "Mmembe: Simply a Victim of the Wrongs of Yesterday", I wrote that "there is nothing sinister or euphoric about Fred Mmembe's conviction and incarceration. Contempt of court laws have always existed and will continue to exist".

I further wrote that "Mmembe's case should be debated in the broader sense and not the narrow self-serving purview of political rhetoric that it is currently being given".

Today, there is an unnerving silence on Emmanuel Mwamba's incarcerat...ion on contempt of court from the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Zambia. Are CSOs in Zambia telling us that Mmembe deserves exemption from the law, and Emmanuel does not?

Exactly who do these so-called human rights and good governance CSOs represent, if they only make noise when it is a media person that is incarcerated? Please CSOs in Zambia STOP the manifest lack of impartiality, else it will be clear that it was NOT the contempt of court law that you were against, but merely the incarceration of Mmembe on the same law that many Zambians are incarcerated.