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Zimbabwe Gets a Hero

Opposition leader becomes rallying cry after beating

By Heather McPherson,  Newser User

Posted Mar 15, 2007 1:46 PM CDT

(Newser) – When Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe's police force brutally beat the leader of an opposition party, Morgan Tsvangirai, they might have unwittingly  created their own Nelson Mandela. Photographs of a battered Tsvangirai being led to a hospital in police custody Tuesday circulated around the globe, prompting...   Read full story »

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