Issues/Politics World Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai takes refuge at Dutch embassy | Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai takes refuge at Dutch embassy |
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The campaign of violence and intimidation against the opposition Movement for Democratic Change appeared to continue in Zimbabwe Monday. Police raided the party's Harare headquarters and took away about 60 people. Most were said to be women and children seeking sheltering from the state-sponsored violence that has killed up to 90 people. Click here for complete article | Times Online Harare man arrested for listening to Voice of America: Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe considers VOA news program Studio 7 to be hostile to his regime. | UPI Zimbabwe facts and figures: Robert Mugabe has been president of Zimbawe since 1980. Once considered a champion of the anticolonial movement, Mugabe is now viewed by much of international community as authoritarian ruler responsible for human rights abuse and for wrecking the country's economy. | Fact Monster British decry Mugabe's actions: Zimbabwe president must bear responsibility for murders, beatings and intimidation that forced opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to boycott Friday's presidential runoff election, British ministger says. | Telegraph |
Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai (right) has taken refuge in the
Dutch embassy in Harare as President Robert Mugabe's security forces close in on Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change. Tsvangirai asked for refuge Sunday, the embassy confirmed, as he announced that he was withdrawing from Friday's presidential election run-off.
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