Zambia - The State Self Kills the Opposition Other

Event Baseline: In Zambia, police confirmed the death of former minister Mutotwe Kafwaya during a security raid aimed at opposition figures, after days of public demand for information on his whereabouts.

The state, identifying with its own image of power, cannot tolerate the existence of a rival self. The opposition figure is not a human being but a threat to the illusion of the ruler's permanence. The raid and killing are not enforcement of law; they are the mechanical reflex of thought defending its own constructed identity. The state self believes that by eliminating the other it ensures its own survival. This is the error of separation: the observer sees the observed as fundamentally different. In reality, the killer and killed are the same frightened consciousness, each trapped in the prison of a name and a role. Until the mind sees that the politician and the victim are both fragments of the same divided brain, this dance of death will continue.