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Africa Subsaharan

Fears of military coup mount in Zimbabwe

2012-06-07

[Daily Nation (Kenya)]

Fears are mounting that Zim-bob-we's military will seize power in the event of President Bob Muggsy Mugabe
Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case...
's death or electoral defeat.

A top army general on Wednesday said they would not allow anyone who does not share the ideals of the veteran ruler's Zanu PF party to lead the country.

"As the military, we do not only believe, but act in defence of these values and we will not respect any leader who does not respect the revolution," Zim-bob-we National Army (ZNA) chief of staff Major General Trust Mugoba said.

"We will not even allow them to go into office because they do not represent the ideology we fought for. "As the military establishment, we have an ideology that is represented in the mission of Zanu PF."

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai believes that such statements are aimed at him and is worried about a repeat of the violence that marred the 2008 elections.

President Mugabe who turned 88 in February and is rumoured to be battling ill health wants elections this year.

The army was blamed for the deadly violence that marred the previous elections where over a hundred supporters of Mr Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) were killed.

Posted by:Fred

#6 "The drums... the drums!..."

Posted by: mojo 2012-06-07 17:19

#5 In his case I think Electoral Defeat would be followed very shortly by Death.

Posted by: Deacon Blues 2012-06-07 12:07

#4 Link went bad. Another less photos.

Posted by: Besoeker 2012-06-07 06:23

#3 Find the ZANU political inclusion?

The term Genocide was coined by a jurist named Raphael Lemkin in 1944 by combining the Greek word genos (race) with the Latin word cide (killing). Genocide as defined by the United Nations in 1948 means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, including: (a) killing members of the group (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group (e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Posted by: Besoeker 2012-06-07 01:39

#2 Fears are mounting that Zim-bob-we's military will seize power in the event of President Bob "Muggsy" Mugabe's death or electoral defeat.

If we have a choice, put me down for "death".

Posted by: tu3031 2012-06-07 01:27

#1 It is turning. And maybe not for the better.

Posted by: newc 2012-06-07 00:20

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