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2007-03-28 Africa Subsaharan

Tsvangirai threatens to boycott elections

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Posted by Fred 2007-03-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Well, he doesn't have to worry about that silly boycott anymore:
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Police stormed the offices of Zimbabwe's main opposition party Wednesday and arrested its leader hours before he planned to talk to reporters about a wave of political violence that had left him briefly hospitalized. Party head Morgan Tsvangirai was taken along with other political opponents of President Robert Mugabe in a bus to an undisclosed location by officers who had sealed off approaches to his headquarters and fired tear gas to drive away onlookers, the party and witnesses said.

The Movement for Democratic Change said Tsvangirai had been scheduled to give a news conference on the government's escalating violence against its political opponents. `Tsvangirai and a number of others we have not been able to identify have been taken by police in a bus. We don't know their whereabouts. We don't know if they have been charged,'' said Eliphas Mukonoweshuro, an aide to Tsvangirai.

Mukonoweshuro said police had searched the offices of Harvest House, the opposition headquarters in downtown Harare, after sealing off two nearby streets and firing tear gas. The European Union said it viewed the arrest of Tsvangirai with ``great concern,'' said Jens Ploetner, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of EU president Germany.

Posted by Steve 2007-03-28 10:35|| 2007-03-28 10:35|| Front Page Top