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pseydtonne"The Zimbabwe Crisis Coalition rights group said village heads had 'assisted' teachers to vote in some rural areas after forcing them to declare they were illiterate."
Mugabe's ZANU-PF Party has murdered dozens of the main people in the rival Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Party. The most common tactic was to arrest the MDC staffer, kidnap the staffer's family, kill the spouse to get the staffer to negotiate, then kill the staffer anyway.
Morgan Tsvangirai (pronounced "CHANG-grr-EYE"), the head of the MDC, finally quit the runoff election to stop the slaughter. That wasn't enough for Mugabe, who decided the vote with only one candidate must go on.
Tsvangirai requested that as many people boycott the runoff as possible. This was easier in the cities, where as many people as possible stayed away. My favorite Zim blog has great footage of... well, nobody at polling places in the second largest city, Bulawayo.
In smaller towns, people were forced to vote and their vote answers tied to their ID cards. That's why the opening quote is significant.
Now that more people understand my obsession with Zimbabwe's collapse, I'd like to share a few interesting photographs of recent events.
In case you can't read the stack, here are the denominations:
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A write-in campaign has been asking Giesecke and Devrient, the German printing company for the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's dollar notes, is hinting as some success. We'll know more next week.
Here's the capper: South Africa's eventually outgoing president, Thabo Mbeki, has been running arms to his old mentor, Mugabe. Doesn't that explain a lot, like "how are these people with no money getting weapons to kill their own townsfolk?" It's making the ANC, Mbeki's party, wonder how fast they can get the bum out of office.
-the news for now, Ps/d
Mugabe's ZANU-PF Party has murdered dozens of the main people in the rival Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Party. The most common tactic was to arrest the MDC staffer, kidnap the staffer's family, kill the spouse to get the staffer to negotiate, then kill the staffer anyway.
Morgan Tsvangirai (pronounced "CHANG-grr-EYE"), the head of the MDC, finally quit the runoff election to stop the slaughter. That wasn't enough for Mugabe, who decided the vote with only one candidate must go on.
Tsvangirai requested that as many people boycott the runoff as possible. This was easier in the cities, where as many people as possible stayed away. My favorite Zim blog has great footage of... well, nobody at polling places in the second largest city, Bulawayo.
In smaller towns, people were forced to vote and their vote answers tied to their ID cards. That's why the opening quote is significant.
Now that more people understand my obsession with Zimbabwe's collapse, I'd like to share a few interesting photographs of recent events.
In case you can't read the stack, here are the denominations:
A write-in campaign has been asking Giesecke and Devrient, the German printing company for the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's dollar notes, is hinting as some success. We'll know more next week.
Here's the capper: South Africa's eventually outgoing president, Thabo Mbeki, has been running arms to his old mentor, Mugabe. Doesn't that explain a lot, like "how are these people with no money getting weapons to kill their own townsfolk?" It's making the ANC, Mbeki's party, wonder how fast they can get the bum out of office.
-the news for now, Ps/d
