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...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, villagers talk of being rounded up by the militias for all-night indoctrinations. "They tell us that if we vote for Tsvangirai, we will have voted for war," says...
...report this month, the New York?based organization Human Rights Watch details how the Joint Operations Command, combining the heads of all Zimbabwe's armed forces, unleashed the violence under the name Operation Makavhoterapapi, or "Where did you put your vote?" Tiseke Kasambala, the organization's Zimbabwe researcher, told TIME that Mugabe is still a 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...
...white-owned farms since 2000, endorsed by Mugabe as a long-overdue redistribution of land to Zimbabwe's black majority, has benefited the ZANU-PF élite. A senior army officer warns that the generals will use any means necessary to hold onto their riches. Should the June 27 vote go against them, he says, they will disregard it: "There will be a coup if Tsvangirai wins. Mugabe is going nowhere...
Such attitudes have alienated old Mugabe supporters in Africa. On June 11, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni criticized the Zimbabwe elections and said Mugabe "must go" if he lost the vote. Two days later 40 African leaders, including 14 former presidents, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and former Archbishop Desmond Tutu published an open letter condemning the violence, while Botswana, one of several of Zimbabwe's neighbors now caring for the heavy influx of refugees who have fled the violence and poverty, lodged an official protest with the regime over its conduct. On a visit to Zimbabwe, Marwick Khumalo...
...Gloucester's elected school committee plans to vote later this summer on whether to provide contraceptives. But that won't do much to solve the issue of teens wanting to get pregnant. Says rising junior Kacia Lowe, who is a classmate of the pactmakers': "No one's offered them a better option." And better options may be a tall order in a city so uncertain of its future. - With reporting by Kimberley McLeod/New York...