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Original Post Date: 2008-04-21 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Angus Shaw
Harare – Zimbabwe resembles a war-zone, with thousands of people displaced, hundreds injured and 10 killed by post-election violence, an opposition leader said as he appealed for international intervention.
Tendai Biti, secretary-general of the Movement for Democratic Change, said violence since March 29 elections had forced 3 000 families out of their homes. Hundreds of people had been hospitalised with injuries and 10 people killed, he said.
Biti said UN organisations present in Zimbabwe must be mobilised as the situation had escalated from a political crisis to a humanitarian one.
“They should move as a matter of urgency. They should move because Zimbabwe is a war zone,” he told a news conference Sunday in Johannesburg, South Africa.
He said key members of the opposition’s administration had been arrested, along with more than 400 supporters.
“We are not able to function because of those arrests,” he said. Biti and Movement for Democratic Change President Morgan Tsvangirai say they cannot return to Zimbabwe as they face immediate arrest.
President Robert Mugabe’s government has accused Tsvangirai of treason and plotting a regime change with former colonial power, Britain.
Tsvangirai is widely believed to have beaten President Robert Mugabe in the elections, but the results still have not been announced after three weeks.
Electoral officials on Saturday began recounting ballots for a couple of dozen legislative seats being challenged – an exercise that could overturn the opposition’s majority win. Most of the seats being recounted were declared for opposition candidates, including in Mugabe’s home district of Zvimba.
Biti said the recount was rigged and the ruling Zanu-PF had tampered with tally sheets and ballot boxes.
“They created fresh ballot papers,” he said. “It is quite clear the dictatorship will do everything … to try to reverse the people’s victory.”
State-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corp. said the full recount would take up to three days. The opposition said this was yet another ploy to delay the publication of the presidential results. Tsvangirai claims he won more than 50 percent of the vote, but independent observers said it is unlikely he received an absolute majority.
Biti said Mugabe was desperate.
“He can delay… but he will go,” Biti said. “He hasn’t stolen this election. We are still fighting.”
The opposition released a detailed list of its supporters who had been injured and killed since the elections. Many had their homes destroyed by ruling party thugs and youth militias, it said. It said a feared government minister, Didymus Mutasa, and army chiefs were involved in instigating the violence and training militias.
It was impossible to verify the opposition claims, although a statement issued Sunday gave a detailed breakdown of some of the casualties and destruction of supporters’ homes.
A doctors’ group last week reported an upsurge in violence-related casualties. The government has made no comment and restrictions on the media make independent investigations difficult.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said Saturday that “torture and violence are surging in Zimbabwe.”
The ruling party, it said, was setting up “torture camps to systematically target, beat and torture people suspected of having voted for the MDC in March’s elections.”
International pressure on Mugabe to release the election results continues to mount.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was expected to discuss the Zimbabwe crisis with other African leaders on the sidelines of a five-day UN trade meeting which opened Sunday in Ghana.
Tsvangirai, who is trying to muster more diplomatic support in Africa, was due to travel to Nigeria and then Ghana and hoped to meet Ban.
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, himself an African who recently helped broker a peace deal after Kenya’s contested elections, on Saturday questioned whether leaders on the continent were doing enough to help Zimbabwe resolve what he called “a rather dangerous situation.”
“Where are the Africans? Where are the leaders and the countries in the region? What are they doing? How can they help resolve the situation?” he told journalists in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
“It’s a serious crisis that will impact beyond Zimbabwe and we do have a responsibility to work with them to find a viable solution,” said Annan, who met with Biti on Friday. – Sapa-AP
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080421075550243C954254