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Such stories have become common in the run-up to the second round of Zimbabwe's election on June 27. The vote is deemed necessary because even though MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai came out ahead in the presidential poll on March 29, according to official results, he didn't get an outright majority. Earlier hopes that the vote might end Mugabe's 28-year rule quickly evaporated. Instead, the first-round results turned out to be a cue for Zimbabwe's security services and pro-Mugabe militias to rampage across the country...
...leadership is a target. Tsvangirai is arrested on a weekly, sometimes daily basis, and on June 12 MDC Secretary-General Tendai Biti was detained at Harare airport and charged with treason. But it is lower-ranking activists and ordinary Zimbabweans who have borne the brunt. The MDC claims 25,000 people have fled the violence, thousands of its supporters have been beaten, hundreds hospitalized, and 66 killed, while 200 more are missing. (Reporting restrictions mean the figures cannot be verified.) A doctor who examined the bodies of two dead MDC activists tells TIME their tongues had been mutilated. In Bhegedhe...
...powerful force, even though he is now letting the generals call the shots. The MDC goes further, saying the top generals of the Joint Operations Command are now in charge of Zimbabwe, having staged a silent coup shortly after the March elections. In a telephone interview from inside Zimbabwe, Tsvangirai, 56, a former trade union leader, compared the militias to the janjaweed in Darfur and described the government as a junta. Indeed, under Mugabe's regime, the country is fast becoming Africa's Burma: an isolated military cabal bent on crushing democracy, paranoid about imagined foreign conspiracies and prepared...
Zimbabwe lurches deeper into crisis as President Robert Mugabe's government menaces the opposition and its supporters in the walk-up to a second round of elections at the end of June. TIME's Megan Lindow spoke by phone to Mugabe's chief political rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), in an interview arranged by MTVu, a college-oriented music network from MTV. Tsvangirai - who expressed his gratitude to MTVu, saying its help "will contribute to the awareness of the crisis in Zimbabwe internationally" - spoke after being detained twice in a single day by Zimbabwean...
TIME: You were detained twice yesterday, and Tendai Biti [secretary-general of the MDC] is now being charged with treason. What does this mean for the MDC and the runoff? Tsvangirai: I think the facts are obvious - that the intention is to decimate our campaign, to slow down our mobilization and to frustrate the leadership. It is obvious that they realize they have lost the people, so the only thing to do is to frustrate the opposition...