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“Mugabe’s War”
By Jacob Laksin
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 26, 2008

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Bearing the brunt of Mugabe’s vengeance are Zimbabwe’s rural provinces. Deemed a hotbed sedition and MDC support by Mugabe, they have been beset by the Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), a combination of police, army veterans and other uniformed sadists who serve, in cold-blooded fashion, as Mugabe’s henchmen.

Instances of ZANU-PF brutality are too many to enumerate, but a few stand out for their sheer depravity. In one case, a man was beaten and castrated with barbed wire, dying later that day in a what Human Rights Watch describes as a “leaning position because he couldn’t lie on his stomach due to his injuries.” The victim’s crime? He had been listening to the March 29 election results on a Voice of America radio program. In another village, a 76-year old woman was dragged before a crowd and beaten with logs until residents confessed to being MDC supporters. Whether they were in fact sympathetic to the MDC is irrelevant; fear, not facts, is the business of Mugabe’s terror squads.

So, too, with the “reeducation camps” that have sprung up across Zimbabwe. Intended to instill fear and root out alleged traitors, the camps are a testament to Mugabe’s murderous paranoia.”

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Mayor blames gangs for violence
AFP ^ | 21 June 2008 | tufto
Posted on June 26, 2008 1:26:25 AM PDT by paristwelve

Mayor blames ‘gangs’ for Paris high school night of violence 4 days ago PARIS (AFP) — Paris Mayor Bernard Delanoe blamed “organised gangs” on Saturday for clashes overnight near the Eiffel Tower between police and high school students celebrating the end of their final exams. Twenty-nine people were arrested, and 22 kept in custody, after the unrest in the Champ de Mars park in the well-to-do Seventh District that pitted police firing tear gas against “250 to 300 youths”. About a dozen neighbourhood shops were damaged, and two police officers slightly injured, said Alain Gardere, who is in charge of neighbourhood policing. “I most firmly condemn the violence overnight that was carried out by organised gangs around the Champ de Mars where many young people had peacefully gathered after their baccalaureate exams,” Delanoe said. “Such actions of violence must be punished with the greatest severity,” added the Socialist mayor of the French capital. The unrest broke out on the eve of the Fete de la Musique, an all-night summer solstice party that pulls big crowds onto Parisian streets for more than 500 open-air concerts. Gardere pointed a finger at “troublemakers” mingling among the 4,000 to 7,000 high school graduates on the Champ de Mars’ sprawling grass terrace who began hurling bottles at the police. Some 30 police officers were seen by an AFP reporter charging the youths with tear gas. Some youths then tried to set fire to rubbish bins and trees, before they were pushed back. “Photos were taken and investigations will be diligent,” said Gardere. He alleged that many of the perpetrators had come from suburbs around Paris — districts best known for rough public housing projects, high unemployment and large immigrant populations. “These young people had faces concealed with headscarves and hoods,” he said.

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