Erasure of Existence

 

Thinking about my status as a target of covert warfare and one thing comes to mind. Whoever erased my name from the registers of all the schools I had attended and deleted my entries at the government passport and identity office wasn't local, ie., they were not African. 

It wasn't Frederick Chiluba either, as some people I have talked to about this say. Chiluba may have had reason to do this because I wrote a derogatory article about him when he was president, at the time I was still very popular on opinion pages of periodicals and newspapers globally. 

The article was published in The Post, an opposition broadsheet in Zambia. It was titled "Chiluba is a Thief". 

The title wasn't my idea, but the editor's. The piece happens to have been read widely and so vexed the president that when I returned, long after he had left office, his hounds hounded and harassed me up and down the country. 

Chiluba was shallow, mean hearted and petty, it's true, and he was callously unrelenting with those he regarded as his enemies. But getting at me this way would have given him absolutely no gain. 

I was living outside the country and had a different nationality. He knew this and would have understood that it most probably made no difference to me if he deleted my Zambian nationality. The European nationality is coveted in Africa. People risk the high seas to get it. For most Africans, exchanging it with the African is out of the question. 

This is the reason I find that it could not have been the small man behind the name deletions.  

Causing me serious inconvenience when it came time to get an identity card or passport couldn't have been on the mind of whoever ordered this done. But this is what happened in the end. I returned to my country of birth then lost my passport while I was here and have been through hell trying to get an ID. 

Losing identity papers happens all the time, but it is almost unheard of that the loss of an ID gets to the point where when asked to fetch records of school attendance to prove that you are who you say you are, you find them all missing. 

All this is reason enough to realize that I wasn't even intended to know of the deletions. 

The thing that's adds to the certainty is the fact something similar had happened to me before, albeit in cyber space. This was while I was incarcerated in the Netherlands. 

The incarceration itself was illegal. The case was in the process of being settled when officers of the law barged into my house and took me to prison while the proceedings were still ongoing. 

In jail, numerous attempts were made on my life, the discovery of one of which I have written about in an article posted to my blog titled "How Dead Doves Proved My Fears Right". The article is available here. 

Somebody wanted me dead ... which is why they whisked me away to a place where this could be done expeditiously. 

I survived, and fortunately my case gained publicity. This pressured the authorities to release me, and I was indeed released shortly thereafter, but almost a year after arrest. 

I discovered after my release, to my dismay, that my internet records had been wiped clean. I didn't exist on the internet anymore. Whereas previous searches using my names as search terms brought up a wealth of articles I had written or had been written about me, after prison there wasn't a single result. 

Unbelievable, but very true. 

Another unbelievable thing that I discovered was that domain names to my websites had illegally been registered to other people before I had lost the legal right to own them. They were not due to expire on my name until long after my release from prison. 

mukazo.com was one of them, panafricanonline.com another. 

I think that the erasures of evidence of my past in Zambia could have happened around the same time I was incarcerated. I surmise that the decision to go all the way was made at that time. 

It must follow the logic of it that the erasure of existence should be one of the last things that happens to one that's been selected for targeted elimination. The first thing is the actual elimination of the target, after which their web presence (if any) and then existence are also removed.

Somebody was very sure that I wouldn't survive prison to have done this before I was actually dead. 

But I survived, which is why the operation was broadened to include ringfencing my communications. I mean, the miscreants are sure I am on my way out, hence they have to keep me from communicating with the public to prevent what they fear the most from happening. 

To this end, IMSI Catcher devices have almost always been my constant companions, diverting my phone signal, hogging my bandwidth, making it near impossible to do anything useful on the internet. This has been going on for the past decade. 

I have been the target of intense censorship and shadow banning on social media. Articles I write and post to the internet are constantly edited to instill the impression I am a bum. As of late, there is almost constantly a jamming device pointed at my home or location I migrate to in my attempts to get away from the jammer.  

Keeping me out of the game, especially by keeping me down, out and isolated, has become the focus of their current activities. 

And I do believe that erasure of existence is routine in today's colonized Africa. It happens to many more people. The targets of these erasures are individuals the colonizers deem a threat to the colonial agenda who have to be stopped (eliminated) before a point in time that their own people start to know them.

It's preemptive. It's a way of making sure there are no comebacks, a way of ensuring no stones are left unturned. 

They've always wanted to prevent the rise of another Nkrumah, Lumumba, Biko, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi, Sankara, Magufuli, and so on, by getting rid of them before they have become known and it's too late. All they have managed to do thus far is create martyrs and, what's worse, they have drawn attention to the targets and their ideas/works. 

They don't want any of that to happen anymore. They don't want reminders to Africans of their colonized/oppressed status, and it would make sense that they have decided for the erasure of not just lives, but entire existences. 

As I said before, it's all about comebacks. 

The main reason they want people to disappear completely is to avoid the discovery that will be made sooner or later that a colonial program of targeted eliminations has existed on the continent since the very inception of the colonial system. 

Imagine if someone in an African country thought of tracking the lives of some of those who were exceptional students, always on top of their academic game, in a bid to find out where they ended up in life? They would just need to gather a few hundred samples from exam registers and, if there have been no erasures from existence, no strange pattern would start to emerge. 

If it is true that our best are being surreptitiously eliminated and their existence is being erased, then the subjects of the study wouldn't be of the actual best, but second, third, or fourth best ... because the actual best would have evidence of their existence erased from all registers. 

They didn't exist so nothing can be known about them. 

But if there are no erasures of existence, and it was the case that targeted eliminations are routine, and it was discovered that almost all of the victims are dead, and that almost all died in a more or less identical manner, complaining of something similar before their death, then something sinister will be revealed when someone researches their lives. 

Discovery of a reality resembling targeted eliminations would definitely wake Africa up because the colonialist agenda will be exposed for all to see. Africans would know for once just how deeply into their communities the tentacles of colonial control reach. 

Africans would be aware the extents to which their colonial masters have gone, and can go, to keep the continent down. 

I dare someone to conduct such a study. What they may find out might terrify the life out of them. 

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