Zimbabwe -- Complete News Coverage For June 20, 2008

Dispossessed: Zimbabwean farm workers sit outside the house they say was burned by
police as part of an intimidation campaign against opponents of Robert Mugabe

From Yahoo News:

HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's opposition leader called on his supporters Friday to challenge President Robert Mugabe's rule in next week's runoff election despite a "wave of brutality" he says the government has unleashed.

Even as Morgan Tsvangirai urged Zimbabweans to have the courage to vote in the face of a violent crackdown, a judge ordered the No. 2 opposition leader held on treason and other charges until after the election.

"The wave of brutality being inflicted upon our people is reminiscent of the worst days of" white rule, Tsvangirai said in an e-mail, one of the few ways he has of reaching voters.

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News On Zimbabwe From Other Sources:
Ahead of Voting, Zimbabwe Youth Gangs Beat, Abduct Mugabe Opponents -- ABC News
War crimes warning to Robert Mugabe as terror grows -- Times Online
Son of an MDC leader found beaten to death in Zimbabwe -- Times Online
EU threatens Zimbabwe with further sanctions -- Independent
EU threatens Zimbabwe with sanctions over poll intimidation -- Guardian
EU Leaders to Warn Zimbabwe -- ABC News
Eyewitness: Raped for opposing Mugabe -- BBC News
Tsvangirai: End Mugabe's Rule -- Time Magazine
Zimbabwe opposition may abandon run-off -- MSNBC
South Africa snubs U.S. effort to condemn Mugabe -- International Herald Tribune
America Is Snubbed at United Nations by Ally of Mugabe -- New York Sun
U.S. Ambassador Slams Zimbabwe's Ruler -- CBS News
The horrors of being a white farmer in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe -- Telegraph
Opinion: Mugabe The Obscene -- Austin Bay, Real Clear Politics

My Comment: South Africa's support in the U.N. for Mugabe is disgraceful. Future generations will look at this period of time as as a period of shame.