Posted on 06/22/2008 7:00:34 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Mugabe's rival Tsvangirai pulls out of election
By Nelson Banya 19 minutes ago
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out of a run-off election against President Robert Mugabe on Sunday, saying a free and fair poll was impossible in the current climate of violence.
Speaking only hours after his opposition Movement for Democratic Change reported its rally had been broken up by pro-Mugabe youth militia, Tsvangirai called on the United Nations and the African Union to intervene to stop "genocide" in the former British colony.
"We in the MDC have resolved that we will no longer participate in this violent, illegitimate sham of an election process," he told reporters in Harare.
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Where is the front page, 6pm news coverage of this atrocity?
Oh yeah, never mind.
Morgan Tsvangirai concluded that being alive is better than being dead.
You jest, but earlier this week Salon.com actually urged McCain to forfeit the race for the same reason.
“genocide”..
No... more like thugocide.
maybe umass can give mugabe back his honorary degree now.
Please, someone, anyone, please rid us of Mugabe!
Zimbabwe is seen as a success by the left. It has achieved equality, which is all that the left cares about. Yes they are all starving, but at least they are equal.
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