We received a petition asking:
“We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to advise Her Majesty to revoke the KCB held by Robert Mugabe.”
Details of Petition:
“We believe that it is only proper and consistent with Britain’s position on the issue of Mugabe’s tyranny in Zimbabwe that he be stripped of this award of chivalry, as advised by the UK Foreign Affairs Select Committee in 2003. This would be in accordance with the 1847 statute allowing those “convicted of treason, cowardice, felony, or any infamous crime derogatory to his honour as a knight or gentleman… [to be] degraded from the Order by a special ordinance signed by the sovereign”. To have Robert Mugabe as a knight of our realm is a poor reflection on the award and this should not continue.”
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Read the Government’s response
Thank you for your e-petition.
It was announced on 25 June 2008 that, on the recommendation of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Her Majesty The Queen approved that the appointment of President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe to be an honorary Knight Grand Cross in the Civil Division of The Most Honourable Order of Bath be cancelled and annulled and that his name be removed from the Register of Honorary Members of that Order.
This action was taken as a mark of revulsion at the abuse of human rights and abject disregard for the democratic process in Zimbabwe over which President Mugabe has presided.
The agreement of a power-sharing deal between Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF and the opposition parties and the announcement of Morgan Tsvangirai as Prime Minister offers the possibility of a change for the better. We hope that the parties involved can make this deal work and provide the Zimbabwean people with the reforms and progress that they voted for one year ago.
Along with others in the international community, we will be looking for the new government to demonstrate, through its actions, a commitment to reform. We must see an end to the political violence and intimidation that has become so shockingly familiar in recent years. The new government also needs to repeal repressive legislation and create a strong economic policy to begin the process of rebuilding Zimbabwe’s economy. A roadmap for the next elections must be put in place to ensure that they are held freely and fairly, as the March 2008 elections should have been.
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