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World churches urge UN act on Zimbabwe 'atrocities'
The World Council of Churches (WCC) on Wednesday called for United Nations action to put an end to 'atrocities' committed by the Zimbabwe authorities in advance of June 27 run-off presidential elections.
How, exactly?
In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, WCC General Secretary Samuel Kobia of Kenya said his organisation was 'dismayed at news of the brutality meted out by police and other government forces' in Zimbabwe. Kobia said the WCC, which groups Protestant and Orthodox churches representing more than 560 million Christians in over 110 countries, 'calls for an end to atrocities in Zimbabwe'.

'Harassment, beatings, arrests and ransacking of property have already extended into the churches as well as agencies of civil society,' the WCC letter declared. 'Where the Mugabe government fails in its responsibility to protect the Zimbabwean people, the international community must assume that burden; in this endeavour, the United Nations should assume a leading role,' Kobia said.
Posted by: Fred 2008-06-19
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=242096