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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Chris_ on June 22, 2008, 09:30:31 AM

Title: Zimbabwe Opposition Leader Pulling out of 'Re' Election
Post by: Chris_ on June 22, 2008, 09:30:31 AM

CLICKY (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080622/ap_on_re_af/zimbabwe)

A sad turn of events, but almost understandable with what happened to all the woman folk the week before  :bawl:


Weeks before, Mugabe's Militia tortures wife of an opposition leader, than burns her alive as a warning (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article4116638.ece)  :bawl:

Title: Re: Zimbabwe Opposition Leader Pulling out of 'Re' Election
Post by: Chris_ on June 22, 2008, 09:55:01 AM

And Mugabe will be welcome back to the UN with open arms after his "re-election".

 :censored:

Title: Re: Zimbabwe Opposition Leader Pulling out of 'Re' Election
Post by: bijou on June 22, 2008, 12:01:29 PM

I'm in two minds about this move, but a Brit blogger has an interesting take on it.

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2008/06/tsvangirai-pull.html

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Morgan Tsvangirai and the MDC's decision today to pull out of the presidential election is incredibly sensible.  The election was clearly going to be rigged to high heaven and he could not possibly have won.  All he could have done was allow the evil, bloodsoaked Mugabe to claim an illegitimate victory - sufficient to be accepted by the rest of Africa.  This way, Mugabe will have no recognisable mandate.  This is a first - previously Mugabe has always been able to claim some form of legitimacy or snuggle up to his opponents in order to strangle them (like Nkomo).

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