CRIMINALS AS POLITICAL PRISONERS...Awmygawd

NYASALAND · Senior Member

CRIMINALS AS POLITICAL PRISONERS...Awmygawd

awmygawd · Guru

NYASALAND wrote:

Mind you , the phrase you wish to contest here , "political prisoner" though has little meaning in legal terms, there is no internationally recognised definition of a political prisoner.

If you're trying to make a point, do it without hiding behind semantics? Please?

awmygawd · Guru

If you think 'political prisoner', is vague, try "Malawian cultural values". I'd love to know what those are especially since I'm expected to precisely spell out what a 'political prisoner' is with reference to "Malawian cultural values". What is your point?

awmygawd · Guru

On the contribution of UNIMA students, have I @ any point disputed the fact, even by implication? I don't recall even mentioning them; if I have, do post a quote.

Of course Chihana & Co didn't work alone. None the less, it's wrong to imply they did nothing at all.

Pope · Guru

I thought most of the one party fighters were at one time UNIMA students or got graduated in other outside Universisties.We should also be reminded that in every team theres a leader or wring leader who sacrifices on behalf.Unless he is leading a criminal gang,you may call a criminal prisoner.In short a hero is an individual depending on what level of achievement hes done.

So,the best thing to do is classify them before they are crowned or scorned.

NYASALAND · Senior Member

NYASALAND wrote: "Mind you , the phrase you wish to contest here , "political prisoner" though has little meaning in legal terms, there is no internationally recognised definition of a political prisoner".

awmygawd wrote:
"If you're trying to make a point, do it without hiding behind semantics? Please? If you think 'political prisoner', is vague, try "Malawian cultural values". I'd love to know what those are especially since I'm expected to precisely spell out what a 'political prisoner' is with reference to "Malawian cultural values". What is your point?

NYASALAND · Senior Member

Well, the way you are going to respond to this now shall depend largely upon your own beliefs about Malawis past, current and future socio-economic events .Thus , my point is that you may refuse to accept reality as I said before and thereby make yourself mentally unhealthy but the truth is that I amn’t comfortable with this popular view in Malawi that a political prisoner should always be some popular politician detained by police or otherwise held at Maula or Chichiri prison and perhaps under house arrest, because their ideas or image are deemed by the government to either challenge or threaten the authority of the state. Honestly , this view is very irritative in my opinion as I have always understood that a political prisoner could also be someone or anyone that has been (1) denied bail unfairly , (2) denied parole such as Clive Macholowe or ex-army Colonel James Njoloma when it would reasonably have been given to them as prisoners charged with a “comparable crime”, or sometimes special powers may be invoked by the judiciary.