On Apr 26, 4:32 pm, Martin Hartley <kink...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> It's now obvious to everyone except the Bush "administration" that
> Robert Mugabe intends to kill or imprison all the people who voted for
> his presidential opponent Morgan Tsvangirai -- plus Tsvangirai
> himself!
>
> But with a stolen "DEMOCRATIC" election on the front page of every
> news publication, we don't hear a word from your Nincompoop-In-
> Chief.
>
> Why doesn't America's WHITE HOUSE WAR CRIMINAL go in after Mugabe,
> like he did Saddam Hussein?
>
> What? No oil in Zimbabwe, Georgie?
>
> Afraid of losing another war, Georgie?
>
> Still no guts, Georgie?
>
> ----------------------------------
> "Mugabe Opponents Seized in Police Raid"
>
> "Zimbabwe's Leader Intensifies Crackdown"
>
> Washington Post Foreign Service
> Saturday, April 26, 2008; A01
>
> HARARE, Zimbabwe, April 25 -- Dozens of helmeted riot police on Friday
> raided Zimbabwe's opposition party headquarters, seizing computers,
> ransacking offices and arresting hundreds of activists as President
> Robert Mugabe's crackdown against his political foes intensified.
>
> Witnesses said police carried off two busloads of activists, most of
> whom had taken refuge in the dingy downtown office building after
> being beaten and tortured by ruling party militias in recent days. The
> police carried out simultaneous raids on the home and office of the
> head of an election-observer mission that had concluded Mugabe was
> defeated in the March 29 presidential vote.
>
> The morning raid brought the brutal government crackdown unfolding
> across Zimbabwe's battered countryside into the heart of the capital,
> and it came a day after the top U.S. envoy for Africa asserted that
> Mugabe had lost the election outright and should leave office after 28
> years in power.
>
> The official results of the presidential vote have yet to be released,
> although Mugabe's ruling party lost the parliamentary election and has
> acknowledged getting fewer votes than opposition leader Morgan
> Tsvangirai. The only question is whether Tsvangirai won the majority
> needed to avoid a runoff election.
>
> In the increasingly violent limbo, Mugabe's security forces and party
> followers have rampaged across Zimbabwe, burning homes and beating
> opposition activists from the Movement for Democratic Change, who have
> been streaming into the capital in search of protection.
>
> Wielding batons and shields, the police arrived at the headquarters
> building, known as Harvest House, around 11:30 a.m. in a large truck,
> two pickups and a bus, swiftly rounding up those gathered there.
>
> Andrew Makoni, a human rights lawyer who spoke from a police station
> here Friday night, said police detained 215 people in the raid. He
> said many were limping or wearing casts from previous injuries as they
> were sent in small groups to holding cells throughout Harare,
> terrified of being forced back to the countryside controlled by
> Mugabe.
>
> "They left their homes because of violence," Makoni said. "And now
> they are in the hands of police."
>
> Hundreds of riot police were posted at intersections across the city.
> Empty of people after the raid, Harvest House contained only a few
> stacked blankets and bloodied bandages. The air carried the stench of
> urine -- testimony to the crush of refugees that had overwhelmed the
> building's capacity in recent weeks.
>
> "It was shocking," said Teresa Mano, a witness to the raid. "I saw
> them shoving injured people into the bus and trucks. They were brutal.
> Those that refused were beaten by batons. Pregnant women were being
> dragged to the trucks. There were babies screaming all over the place.
> You would think they were dealing with hard-core criminals."
>
> Tendai Biti, secretary general of the Movement for Democratic Change,
> said the raid also may have been an effort to destroy evidence of the
> opposition victory. In the days after the election, handwritten
> results for individual polling stations and electoral districts were
> posted across the country. All were recorded and many were
> photographed by the opposition party.
>
> "Harvest House is just a more visible expression of what he's been
> doing in the rural areas, where there are no televisions and no
> telephones," Biti said. "He's a cruel man. This is revenge for losing
> the elections."
>
> The raid against the home and offices of Rindai Chipfunde, executive
> director of the Zimbabwe Election Support Network, might have had the
> same purpose. The group used a sampling model to announce just days
> after the election that Tsvangirai got more votes than Mugabe.
>
> Makoni, the human rights lawyer, said the search warrant for
> Chipfunde's home referred to a potential charge of subverting a
> constitutionally elected government. The charge, he said, carries a
> possible life sentence. The whereabouts of Chipfunde were unknown
> Friday night.
>
> Zimbabwe's security minister, Didymus Mutasa, said those arrested in
> Friday's raids were suspected of committing political violence.
> Mugabe's government often accuses opposition figures of committing
> violence, but few cases have been successfully tried in court.
>
> "There are lots of people who are lying" about having been beaten, and
> are "hiding at the MDC offices, when in actual fact they are the ones
> who have been perpetrating violence," Mutasa said. "The police have a
> duty to deal with such people. It's the law. That is justice."
>
> Mugabe, 84, has held power since the nation was founded from the
> former Rhodesia in 1980. But the last decade of his rule has seen an
> increase in political strife, culminating in the violent aftermath of
> the recent elections.
>
> In the vote, Mugabe lost control of parliament for the first time.
> Until the reporting of official results was abruptly suspended, he was
> also on the verge of finishing second to Tsvangirai, according to
> numerous accounts, including from ruling party officials. Even some of
> his closest allies urged him to step down, but he instead struck back
> with rare force.
>
> Dozens of election officials, along with several journalists, have
> been arrested and in some cases tortured, according to reports from
> human rights groups and some published firsthand accounts. Top
> military and security officials reportedly have taken control of much
> of the government and have deployed officers across Zimbabwe to
> coordinate political intimidation and violence.
>
> The raid comes amid mounting international criticism of Mugabe, who
> has presided over the collapse of Zimbabwe's economy, chronic food
> shortages and a series of deeply flawed elections. Political leaders
> in southern Africa have joined criticism that has long come from the
> U.S., British and other Western governments.
>
> A spokesman for South African President Thabo Mbeki declined to
> comment Friday night. But Jacob Zuma, president of that nation's
> ruling African National Congress, called the situation "unacceptable,"
> according to a party spokeswoman.
>
> Mathews Phosa, the party's treasurer-general, said, "We are opposed to
> anything undemocratic, anything violent, any form of violence in
> places where there should be free and fair elections."
>
> [Timberg reported from Cape Town, South Africa.]
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR200...
Rhodesia was a utopia run by whites. Then the blacks got all uppity
and Mugabe took power. Then he changed the country's name to Zimbabwe
and things have been sliding downhill since.
America was a utopia run by whites. Then the blacks got all uppity
and Obama took power. Then he changed the country's name to
PopeyeLand and things have been sliding downhill since.
It doesn't have to be this way. Vote white.
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