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Zimbabwe: Police Hold Tsvangirai - Again
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12 June 2008
Posted to the web 12 June 2008
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was held by police for the third time in a week while campaigning for the June 27 presidential run-off election.
His Movement for Democratic Change said in a statement that he was arrested in the town of Kwekwe on Thursday while on a tour of Zimbabwe's Midlands province.
"The [party] president's convoy, which includes a personalised campaign bus, was ordered to drive to Kwekwe Police Station," the party said. "The convoy had initially been stopped a roadblock just before Kwekwe... No charge has yet been preferred."
The news came hours after MDC Secretary-General Tendai Biti was arrested at Harare International Airport upon his return from South Africa. The party said Biti's whereabouts were unknown. "He was last seen being shoved, with hands handcuffed, into a Mercedes Benz, registration number AAO 3822," the party said.
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The MDC alleged in its statement that earlier on Thursday, after Tsvangirai had visited an MDC member of parliament at his home, activists of the ruling Zanu PF party had stoned the house and looted property. And in the next town, Kadoma, other Zanu PF supporters beat up onlookers who had waved at Tsvangirai's campaign bus.
Talk about constant harrassment. Thats rediculous. Let me guess... another unregistered car that needed explaining?
I have read the letter to Mugabe from Africa former big pottatoes former presidents to prime ministers,former UN secretaries to people of the people of Africa.These people participated greately in the liberation of Zimbabwe even if they are not zimbamweans but they have a word for Mugabe and it shows that they are feedup with this Mugabe.They are not Britons nor American as per Mugabe song.Please Mugabe turn away from your sin do not kill your people.My Country Tanzania was one of the front line states in the liberation strugle under the late president Nyerere,we suffered a lot for the... [Read Full Text]
What can I do to save mother Africa??
As the saying goes, “East – West, Home is best”. Day in and day out, the blunt of bad leadership is continuously destroying a continent already strained by disease and other social catastrophes, as the international community looks on. Media coverage, like the one on Zimbabwe today seems to mean nothing to the Zimbabweans who are brutally murdered in cold blood. From Kenya to Zimbabwe; Somalia to Sudan; Rwanda to Burundi; Uganda to DRC; South Africa to Western Sahara; Angola to Chad; Central African Republic to Congo Brazzaville; and many other sham... [Read Full Text]
Dadirai Chipiro wife of Patson Chipiro, head of the Zimbabwean opposition party in Mhondoro district, mutilated and Pamela Pasvani, the 21-year-old pregnant wife of a local councillor in Harare both burned alive, now the leader and deputy leaders of the opposition arrested.
I was totally against military intervention in Zimbabwe but if these events can begin to change my mind, hopefully they will change someone elses. I hope against hope that the international community do not sit idly by and do nothing in the face of dogmatic pan-africanism while people die.
It gives one a nice warm feeling to imagine... [Read Full Text]
Purely as an afterthought, there now appears to be a lobby urging Brown, Bush, Medvedev, Rudd et al to intervene militarily, it could be approaching the point where the embarassment of doing nothing is becoming a motivator to actually do something. Half of me hopes that this lobbying will be successful.
Where has military intervention worked in the world? In Iraq, in Lebanon, in apartheid South Africa, in Afghanistan, in North Korea, in Vietnam. You name it; military intervention is the least effective way to solve a problem like the one in Zimbabwe. And the neighbors will support Military action in Zimbabwe! Wishful anglo thinking!
I find it very telling how Phiri didn't utter one word to condemn the attrocities in my above post, whilst implying that Zimbabwes neighbours would engage in combat to prevent a humanitarian effort by the international community to stop the kinds of attrocities mentioned in my above post.
Phiri is quite correct that Zimbabwe has a problem, the problem is people like Phiri.
"Monsters exist But they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are...the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions"~Primo Levi(Holocaust Survivor).
What "atrocities" are you babbling about, the ones concocted in the minds and media of the people trying to effect regime-change in Zimbabwe?
"regime change" haha - you say it like its a bad thing. Any democractic election could result in a regime change if the opposition wins. Why bother campaigning if you want to keep the same regime. That would just be stupid like you dLoser.
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