zimbabwe - terror amidst the presidential run-off

May 13, 2008 at 5:59 PM
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despite wining the first election the nation is going to have to go through a second round of election in zimbabwe and depsite fears for his own safety tsvangirai is going to return to his country to run another contest - mugabe has bought enough time already to start a terror campaign to influence the second round of votes and it seems he has more terror tactics to deploy since no dates have been set for the next election.

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the timeframe seems to be anything from one month to a year according to news reports but the MDC are extremely worried about campaigning - tapiwa mudiwa is a an MDC supporter who was quoted to ask "How are we going to campaign in the run-off as MDC supporters? We can't wear MDC T-shirts. We fear we can't even go for rallies. Cars are being burned."

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Mugabe militia plot to kill Tsavangirai - quote from the TimesOnLine - ZIMBABWE’S opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was forced to cancel his planned return home yesterday after learning of a plot by President Robert Mugabe’s forces to kill him. Tsvangirai had planned to launch his campaign today for next month’s run-off election for president with a rally in Bula-wayo that would have marked the start of what was billed as a nationwide “victory tour”. As he was preparing to leave for Johannesburg airport at 8am yesterday to fly to Zimbabwe, he received a telephone call from a sympathiser within Mugabe’s state security apparatus, warning him that he would be assassinated. When he passed the details to his own security team, they refused to let him travel - full story

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