Zimbabwe police raid opposition, election offices

[Mudoria]

Source: AP

HARARE, Zimbabwe - Heavily armed police swooped down on opposition headquarters and independent election observers' offices on Friday, arresting hundreds and beating and shoving scores of people in the clearest signal to date that the government intends to hold on to power.


Police seized material on vote counting from both offices in raids that came a day after the United States declared opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai had won the presidential elections. Zimbabweans are still awaiting official results. The opposition charges that President Robert Mugabe is using violence and coercion to hold on to power.

The opposition Movement for Democratic Change and the independent Zimbabwe Electoral Support Network both claim Tsvangirai won the vote, based on their own surveys of results posted at ballot stations.



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Another dark day for Zimbabwe.

[angstlessk]

1. in the good ole USofA we deploy the Dept of Justice to route out the opposition

party and put them in jail when we can...

[midnight]

2. Are you thinking of Don Sieglman? Or do you have others

in mind?

[angstlessk]

3. well there are quite a few and most in karl rove's playground states

ala and ole miss, of course there are others around the country like Allegheny County Coroner Cyril Wecht but most are in al and miss.