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Apr 28th, 2008 • Posted in: What They're Saying

“The information I have received suggests an emerging pattern of political violence, inflicted mainly, but not exclusively, on rural supporters of the opposition M.D.C. party.”

– Louise Arbour, the United Nations’ top human rights official, in a statement last week, as reported in the New York Times. Press reports indicate widespread beatings, killings, burnings, and displacement of Zimbabweans believed to support candidates opposing incumbent president Robert Mugabe. Mugabe’s party has suppressed the results of last month’s presidential vote, prompting an international outcry that has been criticized by many as weak and ineffective.

Source: New York Times, Apr. 28.

For more information, see: New York Times, Apr. 27 — U.K. Sunday Times, Apr. 27 — New York Times, Apr. 26.

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