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Rights Group Says Zimbabwe Starves Dissidents By MICHAEL WINES Published: October 25, 2003 JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 24 — On the heels of new reports of growing desperation in Zimbabwe, Human Rights Watch charged Friday that the nation's rulers were using its limited food supplies as a weapon of political control. In a lengthy report on conditions inside Zimbabwe, Human Rights Watch said government relief programs regularly withheld food from critics of the ruling political party, ZANU-PF, and often from entire classes of people, like city dwellers, many of whom are seen as opponents of ZANU-PF. But the watchdog group also offered...