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Zimbabwe's opposition perpetrating terrorist attacks

Brian | 20.03.2007 05:31

Note that Mugabe gives this speech at a ceremony to mark International Women's Day under the theme: Ending Impunity for Violence Against Women.
For those who like to paint him as a despot, this is very odd behaviour. But then hes no despot, so his behaviour is not strange.

Zimbabwe's opposition perpetrating terrorist attacks
Posted: Sunday, March 18, 2007

Mugabe accuses MDC of terror

news24.com

Johannesburg - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has accused the opposition party of perpetrating terrorist attacks on innocent civilians in a bid to oust his government, a newspaper reported Sunday.

Mugabe, 83, has defiantly rejected a torrent of international condemnation following the beating of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and a number of his colleagues last week.

He says the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is a violent party sponsored by former colonial power Britain and other Western allies.

Speaking at a ceremony to mark International Women's Day in the capital Harare on Saturday, Mugabe said the authorities would brook no more lawless behaviour from the MDC.

"We have given too much room to mischief-makers and shameless stooges of the West," Mugabe was quoted as saying in the Sunday Mail.

"Scores of innocent people going about their legitimate business have fallen prey to terrorist attacks that are part of the desperate and illegal plot to unconstitutionally change the government of the country," he added.

He was addressing government ministers, MPs, religious groups and NGOs at a belated ceremony to mark International Women's Day under the theme: Ending Impunity for Violence Against Women.
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