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Zimbabwe opposition candidate hiding in Dutch Embassy
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Jun 23, 2008 01:19pm |
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| Media | TV News - CNN |
| News Date | Monday, June 23, 2008 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Zimbabwe's opposition presidential candidate took refuge Monday at the Dutch Embassy, a day after rampant violence forced him to bail out of this week's runoff election.
Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice slammed the Zimbabwean government for what she called a "continuing campaign of violence against its own people."
"Yet another vicious assault on the opposition and its supporters for exercising their right to assemble and their right to free speech has reinforced that it is impossible for there to be a free, fair or peaceful election in Zimbabwe on June 27," Rice said in a statement.
Morgan Tsvangirai dropped out of Friday's presidential runoff against incumbent Robert Mugabe after youth militias loyal to Mugabe attacked a political rally at a stadium in Harare. Tsvangirai said vote rigging and violence made a fair election impossible.
He added that officials with his party, the Movement for Democratic Change, decided they could not ask Zimbabweans to cast ballots when "that vote could cost them their lives." Zimbabwe's justice minister countered that Tsvangirai dropped out because he feared "a humiliating defeat." |
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