Why does the ICC dither on Zimbabwe?
Former Zimbabwean cricketer Henry Olonga, who, with Rod, campaigned to stop the the Black Caps tour to his former homeland earlier this year, continues his campaign to highlight human rights abuses.
Rod and Henry may have failed in their efforts to stop the tour, but his visit caused many New Zealanders to sit up and take notice of what Robert Mugabe was doing to his people and his country.
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November 23rd, 2005 at 2:04 pm
Very admirable, but all this diversion just begs the question of why you are ignoring the fact that with Blairs change of heart , Kyoto is dead. Its over, and Labour with their deal with NZ First and United is going to kill it now. All was needed was Blair to do it so now our queen can say, me too, since no-one else is doing it.What , no comments from any of your supporters, no ranting and raving and tearing hair out.
November 23rd, 2005 at 3:03 pm
I haven’t seen any change of heart from Blair that could be said to kill Kyoto. At a push, you could argue that his new be-nice-to-Bush-and-Howard focus makes a post-Kyoto, post-2012 agreement that will be the same format as Kyoto more difficult. But that does not rule out some sort of post-2012 agreement that takes a different form to Kyoto, nor does it end the current pre-2012 agreement.
November 23rd, 2005 at 3:22 pm
On morning report today someone said Helen Clark will raise the Zimbabwe problem at CHOGM in Malta, despite Z. having taken itself out of the Commonwealth after the last CHOGM. Hope this is correct.
Think it was a reporter travelling with Helen and Churchill.
November 23rd, 2005 at 3:59 pm
The problem is that with crazy comments by the likes of keith Locke who said on the eve of the tour to Larry Williams on NewsTalkZB “the Tour to Zimbabwe is much much worse than sex tours” (actual quote) the greens immediately lost all credibility on this issue.
Locke was unable to tell te difference between consenting adults playing a game of cricket and young children being raped (both physically and emotionally) - until Greens get their perspectives correct you have no credibility on such issues.
November 23rd, 2005 at 9:13 pm
The obvious answer to Frog’s question is money outvotes morality anyday at the ICC.
International sports bodies are really self-governing multinationals operating in a legal no-mans-land.
They keep national representatives in line by dangling carrots of sharing revenue from TV rights, gate take, merchandising and more and equally hold out the threat of fines and other punishments.
National sports bodies buy into the whole package, and worse yet, are supported by taxpayers dollars at various levels just so we can feel proud to hear a haka, God Defend NZ and see the NZ flag in places like Harare.
Let’s initiate a global movement for Fair Sports, much the same as we support Fair Trade and bring some morality and a few old fashioned amateur sports values back into the equation.