Thread by @Wamagaisa

1. This is for Western Lobbyists backing Zimbabwe’s brutal regime & making profits out of the tears & blood of suffering Zimbabweans. They have previously been listed as:
@BallardFirm
@avenustrategies
@btpadvisers
Mercury Public Affairs & the UK parent Mercury International

2. The above is an image of Tawanda Muchehiwa, Zimbabwe’s most recent torture survivor. He’s just 22. There are more graphic pictures of brutality by the regime you are backing. It’s people like Tawanda, poor taxpayers, who are paying your fees to sugarcoat the Mnangagwa regime.

3. Tawanda was badly tortured. Mentally, the young man is traumatised. Physically he’s a wreck. Reports indicate he’s having renal failure. So @BallardFirm @avenustrategies @btpadvisers Mercury Public Affairs, maybe you have no sense of embarrassment but you can’t fool the world

4. For every penny that lobbyists earn from the Zimbabwean regime, they are robbing poor taxpayers and encouraging the regime’s violence upon citizens. After this brutality, lobbyists go on to lie to high offices that the regime is doing well. It’s immoral & disagreeable.

5. Maybe the lobbyists don’t care because for them Zimbabwe is just another tinpot dictatorship from which to extract profits. Maybe to these lobbyists these African lives don’t matter at all. For them, it’s just another day at the office. But #AfricanLivesMatter

6. We don’t have much to fight these powerful lobbyists. The least we can do is to name and shame them. But just in case they have no shame, we must remind them that they are enablers of human rights violations, including torture. This may have legal consequences for them.

7. You can’t be helping a regime that tortures citizens and claim disassociation from its crimes against humanity. So there you are, those of you who do PR for the Zimbabwean regime: @BallardFirm @btpadvisers @avenustrategies Mercury Public Affairs, Mercury International UK

8. If you are a concerned Zimbabwean or a friend of long-suffering Zimbabweans please retweet this tagging these lobbyists with images of state-sponsored brutality @BallardFirm @avenustrategies @btpadvisers Mercury Public Affairs