To whom it may concern
You may have seen news reports lately of events in
Zimbabwe, especially regards MDC leader Morgan
Tsvangirai being beaten. But what has been missing is
the context and history.
 http://www.swans.com/library/art8/elich004.html

I hope you are aware that the MDC is funded by the
western powers, like US and UK: most people are not.
So i wish to bring the following recent article to
your attention:

 http://www.africaspeaks.com/articles/2007/1503.html

in which we learn:
'In the article 'Zimbabwe: State Warns MDC Against
Lawlessness' copied from the Zimbabwe government's
website, and another article from the BBC's website
'Eyewitness: Harare's brutal clash' that purports to
be an eyewitness account of what happened, one gets
that the opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, among
others, were deliberately defying the law and
provoking a violent confrontation with the police and
the government. As the so-called eyewitness said:

"All in all there were only about 30 police and there
were more than 1,000 - we were too many for them. They
could not control what was happening."

and,

"We picked up their [police] discarded sticks and used
them to beat their left-behind colleagues"

From that BBC article 'Eyewitness: Harare's brutal
clash', there is no way we can deduce that the police
and the government were to blame for the clash between
over a thousand protesters, mostly youths, and thirty
police officers. The small number of police officers
who were eventually overpowered by the protesters
clearly showed that the police did not come out in
huge numbers prepared for a violent confrontation. '

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Now you may be aware of recetn protests in the US,
where non-violent protestors were arrested.
 http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030607P.shtml
 http://peacejournalism.com/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=17738

So its ok for protestors to be arrested in US, but not
in Zimbabwe, especially when in Zimbabwe, they
deliberatly resorted to violence.

These facts are being ignored by the MSM, and
democractically elected Mugabe continues to be
demonised in favour of the western pastsy Tsvangirai.

regards
Brian Souter