Saturday March 17, 2007
Zimbabwe is Africa's shame, Tutu declares
Basildon Peta
Independent UK
Opponents of Robert Mugabe's government in Zimbabwe have vowed to drive him from office saying the state was already at "war" with its own people.
Arthur Mutambara, the leader of one of the two factions of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), yesterday delivered the strongest call for action yet against the increasingly violent regime."If there is going to be any war, this is the time to declare war," he said. The Oxford and MIT-educated professor was among those detained and beaten by police at a peaceful prayer meeting on Sunday.
"I can assure Robert Mugabe that this is the end game. We are going to do it by democratic means, by being beaten up and by being arrested - but we are going to do it," Mr Mutambara said. "We are in the final stage of the final push. We are not going to allow a dictator who is sitting on us to determine the means of confrontation against him."
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