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...Tsvangirai's side. For example, following catastrophic political disturbances in 1987, Mugabe’s party, ZANU, signed a Unity Accord with the then opposition leader Joshua Nkomo’s party, ZAPU. Although this accord led to the end of political violence, many perpetrators went largely unpunished while Nkomo and his party took largely ceremonial roles in the new government setup. For these reasons, the opposition to the current deal is concerned Tsvangirai may have been suckered into a deal with Mugabe not really intending to give him real power. If this were the case, how then would Tsvangirai...
...1980s, Mugabe successfully neutered the challenge of his liberation-era rival Joshua Nkomo, by bludgeoning his supporters in a sustained campaign of violence and then drawing a cowed Nkomo into a subservient role in government. This time, however, Mugabe's end-game may be about securing a safe exit for himself. A top government intelligence officer told TIME that Mugabe, despite his angry rhetoric, may in fact be preparing to step down. "One thing for sure is that Mugabe is now on the prowl, especially in his own party," the intelligence officer said. "He wants to deal with those...
...Davison Maruziva, editor of the independent weekly The Standard was arrested at his newspaper's Harare office after publishing an opinion piece by M.D.C. figure Arthur Mutambara. A Zimbabwean photographer for Reuters, Howard Burditt, was also detained for three days and released on bail. Meanwhile Chikwore's lawyer, Harrison Nkomo, was arrested while waiting to make presentations at the High Court in connection with Chikowore's case. Nkomo, who has represented other foreign journalists detained in Zimbabwe, is said to have told senior prosecutor Michael Mugabe that his "father" should step down. Mugabe entered a four-page complaint and Nkomo...
...might well earn him a day in court to answer for some of his actions, particularly the Matabeleland massacres in which tens of thousands of people were killed after Mugabe ordered his army's North Korean-trained Brigade 5 into the heartland of Mugabe's longtime political rival, Joshua Nkomo. But Mugabe may be smarter than other strongmen, such as Liberia's Charles Taylor, who were eased into exile with a promise of immunity, only to find themselves on trial at The Hague. A spokesman for the International Criminal Court, in a statement released to TIME, hinted that the Zimbabwean...
...particular were accompanied by state terror. During the mid-1980s, he unleashed his army's North Korean-trained 5th Brigade on the ethnic Ndebeles of Matabeleland in central Zimbabwe, killing more than 10,000 for their support of Mugabe's rival during the liberation struggle, ZAPU leader Joshua Nkomo...