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In Zimbabwe, Raid on Opposition Party and Election Monitors
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Apr 25, 2008 01:47pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Saturday, April 26, 2008 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By CELIA W. DUGGER
Published: April 26, 2008
JOHANNESBURG — Truckloads of heavily armed police officers rounded up scores of people at the headquarters of Zimbabwe’s opposition party on Friday and descended upon independent monitors who kept watch on the nation’s disputed elections last month, according to opposition officials, witnesses and the police.
The raid began at 11 a.m. in the capital, Harare, and was still under way in the middle of the afternoon. Harvest House, the rundown, six-story headquarters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, was still surrounded by a police cordon at 2:30 p.m., opposition officials said. It has become an informal refugee camp for opposition supporters who have fled what human rights groups describe as political repression in the countryside.
At the same time, a smaller contingent of police investigators raided the offices of the Zimbabwe Election Support Network, an independent civic group that enraged the government by analyzing polling data and projecting that the opposition had won the March 29 election, perhaps by enough to avoid a runoff in the race for president.
The police were also searching the home of the network’s director, looking for what one of the group’s members described as “subversive material to overthrow the government.” |
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