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Huge anti-Mugabe protests take place... without police repression
[OBSERVERS.FRANCE24] Thousands of people filled the streets of the Zim-bob-wean capital on Thursday in the largest protest against authoritarian President Bob MuggsyMugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... in nearly a decade. And for the first time in their memories, protestors did not face police or military repression. As riot police stood by, supporters of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) called for the "dignified exit" of the president, who’s been in power since 1980. The actual number of protestors was contested--some sources estimated 2,000 while activists reported 10,000. But everyone agreed that thousands had turned out to protest, except the state-controlled paper, which called the event a flop. Posted by: Fred 2016-04-17 |
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