War vets threaten to block parliament entry
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By Vusi Moyo 31-08-08
Bulawayo-Zimbabwe's war veterans' movement plans to prevent the main
opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) from entering
parliament until they apologise for heckling and booing President
Robert Mugabe on Tuesday during his official opening speech.
The movement's national chairperson Jabulani Sibanda is re****ted to
have contacted state media institutions revealing the plan.
Sibanda said: "What the MDC did is un-African. We will force them to
apologise for disrespecting the legitimate president of Zimbabwe."
Sources from the state media who spoke to the controversial war
veterans' leader say Sibanda's voice had overtones of violent assaults
on the MDC and its sup****ters.
The threats suggest retribution against opposition sup****ters who bore
the brunt of brutal acts in the run up to the 27 June presidential run
off.
Scores of opposition sup****ters were murdered in the run up to the
presidential election at the instigation of operations that were being
commandeered by the liberation war heroes to ensure President Mugabe's
victory.
According to Sibanda, the liberation war veterans are to embark to
marches similar to the one dubbed "Million men march" they held in
November last year to garner sup****t for President Mugabe.
The million men march was used to intimidate opposition sup****ters in
the run up to the March elections.
On Tuesday soon after Mugabe's speech, scores of ZANU PF sup****ters who
had gathered at parliament protested as MDC legislators emerged from
the building and marched to the building which houses the opposition in
central Harare.
Meanwhile the main opposition MDC says it has unearthed a plot by the
Attorney General's office and members of the Central Intelligence
Organisation (CIO) to secure convictions against MDC MPs in a bid to
reverse its majority in Parliament.
Deputy Attorney General, Johannes Tomana is said to be leading the plot
in which Zanu PF is planning to secure convictions and lay more charges
against MDC MPs.
Last week five MDC MPs were arrested in Harare during the opening of
the 7th Parliament of Zimbabwe.
Four of them, Pearson Mungofa, the MP for Highfield East, Eliah
Jembere, Epworth; Bednock Nyaude, Bindura South and Trevor Saruwaka,
Mutasa Central are still in police custody. They were denied bail.
Nyaude was granted bail by a Bindura magistrate but the State has
appealed.
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