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Zimbabwe's Opposition Pleads for Help

Leader tells UN that Mugabe's troops are 'terrorizing people'

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 21, 2008 6:24 PM CDT

(Newser) – Zimbabwe's opposition begged world leaders today for protection from post-election violence, Reuters reports. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said troops were "terrorizing people" and creating "a very serious humanitarian situation" in Zimbabwe, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said. Tsvangirai also told Ban that African leaders had failed to intervene after Zimbabwe's disputed election last month.

The UK's foreign secretary blasted President Robert Mugabe for "beating his own people to death" and called Zimbabwe's current vote recount a "charade," the Guardian reports. But Mugabe's government, which delayed a recount yesterday, denied any crackdown. "As to whether there's a war, well, they're (opposition) wishing it, but the people of Zimbabwe are peaceful," Mugabe's justice minister said.

Electoral officials count ballots in Domboshawa, near the Zimbabwean capital of Harare Saturday, April 19, 2008. (AP Photo)

Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of Zimbabwe's Movement For Democratic Change opposition party, talks to the media in Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday, April 18, 2008. (AP Photo/STAR, Paballo Thekiso)

A Zimbabwean police officer walks in a corridor stacked with ballot boxes at a command center in Murombedzi, about 100 kms west of Harare, Zimbabwe Saturday April 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Electoral officials count ballots in Domboshawa, near the Zimbabwean capital Harare Saturday, April 19, 2008. (AP Photo)

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