It's the same old, same old incoherent garbage the Zionist MSM normally spews.
Mugabe is no picnic; however, why is the Zionist press focused on him now, readers?
"Zimbabwe riot police raid party office"
"by Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times | April 26, 2008
JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwe's security crackdown intensified yesterday as riot police raided the opposition headquarters in the capital city of Harare, arresting hundreds of people, including many rural activists and their families who had fled recent violence in their home districts.
Opposition officials said more than 200 armed riot police raided the building and arrested about 300 people. Police said they had a warrant to search for "suspicious individuals."
The crackdown was one of the strongest signs yet that President Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's longtime leader, intends to hold onto power despite rising violent protests and growing international pressure for him to step down.
Among those arrested yesterday were victims of recent severe beatings, as well as women and children, according to opposition officials and witnesses.
Police yesterday also raided the offices of the Zimbabwe Election Support Network, an independent election monitoring group that last month released a projection based on 5 percent of the presidential vote that showed Mugabe losing to opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
Police seized documents and computers from election groups' offices and those of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.
The raids appeared aimed at collecting any information showing that Mugabe and his ruling party, the Zimbabwe African National Union-PF, lost the election.
Almost a month after the vote, official presidential election results have yet to be released. Mugabe's party lost control of Parliament but has demanded a recount of 23 seats. The new tally is underway. Recounts on three seats have confirmed the original results.
The UN Security Council will be briefed on the Zimbabwe situation next week, according to South Africa's UN ambassador, Dumisano Kumalo....
Rural Movement for Democratic Change activists have been forced to flee their homes in recent weeks as Zimbabwe's military, backed by police, war veterans, and youth militias, have launched a campaign against opposition supporters. Worst hit have been Mashonaland and Manicaland, which swung their support from Mugabe's party to the opposition.
The violence has been confirmed by Human Rights Watch and the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights.
According to a Movement for Democratic Change security official reached by phone, 27 children from 3 months to 13 years old were among the people arrested yesterday along with 40 women.
"When the police came, they tried to intimidate people. Some of the children were crying when they took them away," security official Daniel Joseni said. "Some of the people have just been discharged from hospital. Some are in plaster casts. Some have lashes on their body. They were just recovering."
"Their houses had been burned. There was nowhere for them to go. They had virtually nothing left."
Another witness, Jasman Jaya, who runs a garage in downtown Harare, said police beat some of those they arrested.
"Police officers were busy loading people, most of them injured, into the bus and trucks parked there. Some of them looked shabby and some looked like they had not bathed for days. They looked terrified," Jaya said. "Those that were slow to follow police instructions were being beaten by baton sticks."
Chamisa said police stormed the party's offices without explanation. "I actually saw riot police besiege our offices and cordon off the area. I escaped by a whisker," he added, declining to describe how he got away.
Noel Kututwa, chairman of the independent monitoring organization, said officers from Zimbabwe's feared Central Intelligence Organization said they were looking for "subversive material likely to overthrow the government using unconstitutional means," the Associated Press reported.
Kututwa said the raid appeared aimed at intimidating and weakening his organization ahead of any possible presidential runoff.
In a related development, Angola's state ANGOP news agency reported yesterday that a Chinese ship carrying weapons and ammunition for Zimbabwe would be allowed to dock but not to unload its cargo. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Thursday the ship would return home after failing to unload its cargo in any Southern African port.
Ooooh, it just never ends with the Zionist media, does it, readers?
More on China coming up!
Zimbabwe's state-owned Herald newspaper condemned Zimbabwe's neighbors as "myopic stooges" for refusing to allow the cargo to be unloaded.
The raids came a day after a US envoy declared Tsvangirai the victor and called on Mugabe to step down."
For more on Zimbabwe's recent troubles, go --HERE--
