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Police Raid Zimbabwe Opposition HQ

Posted Apr 25, 08 6:45 AM CDT in World 

(Newser) – Zimbabwean police raided the headquarters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change in Harare today. The MDC claims that around 100 party members were arrested, and a journalist on the site saw people "limping and in pain" being dragged away. Several of the arrested were recovering from earlier injuries sustained in attacks by pro-Mugabe mobs.

"They took everyone in the building, including those who had come just to seek medical care," an MDC spokesman tells Reuters."They are trying to destroy evidence of their brutality." Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC leader who is widely thought to have won the presidential election, remains out of the country; he is traveling throughout the region to shore up his claim to victory.

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Solomon Khumbula, aged 12, shows his injury while seeking help at the Movement for Democratic Change headquarters in Harare, Zimbabwe, Tuesday April 22, 2008, after he claimed to have been beaten by Zanu...   (AP Photo)
Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of Zimbabwe's Movement For Democratic Change opposition party, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday, April 18, 2008.   (AP Photo/STAR, Paballo Thekiso)
President Robert Mugabe delivers a speech during Zimbabwe's 28th independence anniversary in Harare, Friday, April, 18, 2008.   (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, April 17, 2008.   (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
Victims of violence who claimed to have been beaten by Zanu PF militias and war veterans, seek help at the Movement for Democratic Change Headquarters, in Harare, Zimbabwe, Tuesday April 22, 2008.   (AP Photo)
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