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02-01-2010, 10:06 AM
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Zimbabwean Violence
This occured early 2008: MASKED hoodlums at the weekend severely beat up women and children at a camp for people displaced by political violence, while the badly burnt corpse of an opposition worker was discovered at a farm near Harare, in a macabre reminder of Zimbabwe’s raging political crisis. The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party, which identified the murdered man as Joshua Bakacheza who it employed as one of its drivers, strongly hinted it could not participate in talks with President Robert Mugabe’s government to end the crisis while political violence persisted against its supporters. “How does a self-respecting party enter into negotiations within the context of such levels of violence?” the party asked as it circulated the gruesome pictures of Bakacheza’s body. |