Kigali — Yesterday BBC World showed gruesome footage of the violence in Zimbabwe ahead of the presidential runoff. The picture of a man whose right ear had been freshly chopped off in a style reminiscent of that used by Ugandan terrorist rebel leader Joseph Kony of Lord's Resistance Army, run alongside the victim's sworn message that nothing would deter him from voting for his opposition party.
Election officials in that country announced over three weeks ago that a repeat of the election will take place on June 27, nearly three months after the first round failed to give majority lead to one contestant. President Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF came second in the original contest, but their superior opponents, Movement for Democratic Change of Morgan Tsvangirai, was said to have come just short of the required majority to be handed the mandate to govern the long suffering southern Africa nation.
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