Why do the people of Africa tolerate these parasite dictators that keep the continent poor, miserable and backward?
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Zimbabwe Rounds Up Opposition Members
By CELIA W. DUGGER, The New York Times
JOHANNESBURG — Truckloads of heavily armed police officers rounded up scores, if not hundreds, of people at the headquarters of Zimbabwe’s opposition party on Friday as plainclothes investigators descended on independent monitors of the nation’s disputed elections last month, according to opposition officials, witnesses and the police. Friday’s raid on the opposition’s nerve center and the election monitors signaled a sharp and very public escalation of the country’s deepening and increasingly violent political crisis, one that has been concentrated to date in far less visible rural areas. Both raids began around 11 a.m. in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare. Harvest House, the rundown, six-story headquarters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, was still cordoned off by the police at mid-afternoon. Computers and documents were seized. The opposition’s offices had become an informal refugee camp for party supporters, some visibly wounded, who had fled what human rights groups describe as political repression in the countryside. Witnesses said they had watched as the police herded more than 200 of these bedraggled people, including pregnant women and children, onto buses. At the same time, a smaller contingent of police investigators raided the offices of the Zimbabwe Election Support Network, an alliance of civic groups that enraged the government by analyzing polling data and projecting that the opposition had won the March 29 election, perhaps by enough to avoid a runoff in the race for president. Its findings were cited Thursday by the top American diplomat for Africa as the best evidence that the opposition was the clear victor… Continue reading >>
4 thoughts on “Mugabe adopts Zenawi’s tactics: Opposition HQ surrounded”
I think meles zenawi will be happy of this news as this is his vision for ethiopia and the whole africa.It will help him to say it is not only me look others…….
Democracy is being buried in Africa,especilly in Ethiopia and Zimbabwe.It is a scary situation.Where are the forces that champion the cause of democracy? Is democracy shadowed by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?Doesn’t the Security Concil have a role in the maintenance of national peace? Are they waiting for a carnage?
Did you follow what Tabo Mbeke said? He said there is no electon crisis in Zimbabwe!What an opportunist Ex-freedom fighter he is?I think the people of Zimbabwe should hold the rule by themselves!
fano,
actually i disagree. such similar tactics being used by known dictators and human rights abusers further exposes Meles Zenawi’s brutality. here we are witnessing a photo copy of the tactic and brutality used in Ethiopia repeated in Zimbwabe. that tells us the level of zenawi’s crimes against humanity. not only meles zenawi is committing human rights crimes against ethiopians, but also his ways are being coppied by other ruthless dictators in Africa. For one his brutality in Ethiopia enabled him to stay in power. He has suffered little consequence as a result at the same time. These combinations encourage human rights abuse in the world, particularly in africa, a continent awash with vicious dictators. on top of all that, western leaders complicate matters by supporting dictators as long as it suits them. why would Mugabe be scared of the west while he sees them sleeping with brutal dictators like meles zenawi? it rather justifies his position by calling the west hypocrite. while the west is part of our probem, it is our duty to fight dictatorship in africa. God be with Ethiopians, Zimbwabeans and other africans suffering under brutal dictatorships, because no one is.
Why worry about democracy in Africa? Why don’t we just go to the jungle and live there with the monkeys and learn how the monkeys live? Democracy, after all, is a white man’s concept, not ours, and the monkeys are closer to us than the white man.This is the main reason why our leaders could not understand the concept of democracy and do not like to be elected democratically.