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US envoy paid for opposition supporters' treatment: Zimbobwe | ||
2008-05-30 | ||
The Zimbabwe government accused the US ambassador to Harare on Friday of transporting opposition victims of post-election violence to hospital and paying for their treatment.
"The US ambasssador had been collecting from the scene of crime only MDC victims," Chinamasa told reporters at the Zimbabwean embassy in South Africa. "He drove them to hospital where he paid in full, in advance, for their medical expenditure."
While the United Nations and rights groups say most of the violence has been perpetrated by followers of Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, the government says the real picture has been distorted. "We have heard cases where the US ambassador has been moving round with journalists and photographers in places where there had been no violence," said Chinamasa, who is one of Mugabe's staunchest allies. "That gives you one conclusion -- they are going to foment the violence in order to take pictures." In a speech last Sunday, Mugabe threatened to expel McGee "if he makes one more wrong step." There was no immediate reaction to the latest accusations from the US embassy in Harare. | ||
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