WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.
Original Post Date: 2008-04-20 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[I’m not going to refer to the MDC as the “Opposition” any more. They are the duly elected Govt of Zimbabwe. And since they’re not in power in Harare, I’m regarding them as being in exile. The illegitimate President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe has unleashed his militia and thugs on the members of the NEW RULING PARTY! I hope this matter is taken to the United Nations. Jan]
by Aderogba Obisesan
Zimbabwe’s opposition on Sunday accused the authorities of waging a “war” that has killed 10 people and injured 500 others since disputed parliamentary and presidential elections.
“Ten people have so far been killed in Zimbabwe since March 29. The situation in Zimbabwe is desperate,” Tendai Biti, secretary general of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party, told reporters in Johannesburg.
Biti said hundreds of homes had been burnt and 3 000 families been displaced in election-related violence. He also said that more than 400 MDC activists had been detained since the vote.
A Zimbabwean police spokesperson could not immediately be reached for comment.
“There is a war in Zimbabwe being waged by (President Robert) Mugabe’s regime against the people. The regime has unleashed violence on the people,” Biti said, appealing for foreign intervention in the crisis.
He alleged that 84-year-old Mugabe, a former guerrilla leader and hero of the national war of liberation, was now suffering from “senile dementia” and was “completely dislocated from reality.”
The parliamentary and presidential elections, both held on the same day, have racked up tensions between the opposition and the regime in Zimbabwe, which is already gripped by a grave economic crisis.
Opposition campaigners earlier said two people had been killed in violence linked to the elections and a lawyer for the MDC said on Sunday that at least 75 activists were currently in detention.
Several international human rights groups have accused the authorities of organised violence. New York-based Human Rights Watch on Saturday said opposition supporters were being rounded up and tortured in special camps.
The MDC officially scored a historic victory in the parliamentary elections, taking the majority from Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) party for the first time since independence in 1980.
The MDC says that its leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, also won a presidential vote against Mugabe, who has led Zimbabwe since independence. The official results of the presidential vote have still not been released.
The international community has urged Zimbabwe to issue the results.
Electoral authorities have ordered a recount of ballots for both the parliamentary and the presidential votes in 23 out of 210 constituencies – most of them won by the MDC.
Officials said on Sunday that the recount could take longer than the three days originally forecast. The MDC has said it could take six days and has refused to recognise the result, which could hand victory back to Zanu-PF.
Biti said the recount was “illegitimate” and “shameful,” adding: “The dictatorship will do everything, legally and extra-legally, to try and reverse the people’s electoral victory of March 29.”
South African dock workers last week refused to unload a Chinese ship carrying arms destined for Zimbabwe and a South African court barred its cargo from being transported overland to the border.
The ship, believed to be carrying rocket-propelled grenades, mortar rounds and assault rifle ammunition, was now due to unload its cargo in Angola, CNN reported on Saturday. – Sapa-AFP
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080420155708841C586783