Posted on 04/08/2008 4:51:31 AM PDT by Nextrush
At least 80 Zimbabwean opposition activists have been assualted by pro-government militants in different parts of the country, they say.
The alleged assaults took place in the eastern province of Manicaland and Matabeleland in the west.
This year's election has been relatively peaceful until now.
Meanwhile, a judge has agreed to an opposition request that the results of last month's election be released, as an urgent matter.
"The case should proceed," said Justice Tendai Uchena in Harare's High Court.
The opposition says the violence is meant to intimidate rural voters ahead of a possible run-off poll......
President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF has demanded a recount of the vote, while police have arrested at least seven election officials, accused of undercounting votes for Zimbabwe's long-time leader.
The reports of violence coincide with the invasion of at least 18 white-owned farms by so-called "war veterans"..
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Hail Mugabe!
This game with charging election officials with “undercounting” votes for Mugabe could only happen in a bannana republic.
Of course a lot of people in Zimbabwe would be glad to have a banana right now because they have nothing to eat.
> President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF has demanded a recount of the vote, while police have arrested at least seven election officials, accused of undercounting votes for Zimbabwe’s long-time leader.
Zimbabwe: ZANU-PF’s Paradise-on-Earth. And Zimbabwe is somehow better than the old Rhodesia once was exactly how...?
South Africa will be going along this route soon — watch this space.
In other words hands off. Only international intervention will get rid of Mugabe. The people are too crushed and disarmed to revolt. Possibly it will get so bad the other African states will intervene, but that will be the wholesale massacre stage, if they do it then.
It looks like the thugs in Zimbabwe have learned from the thugs of Philadelphia on how to deal with the opposition
You just beat them up
Where is Jimmah Carter?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“Mugabe has unleashed his thugs while President Thabo Mbeki and Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa watch on and urge a peaceful resolution.”
Exactly. Mbeki is far more powerful than Mugabe, yet he sits there and cowers in the face of his little thuggish neighbor to the north. Mbeki should be impeached.
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