A British lord yesterday said more than 170 police officers had been involved in conducting dawn raids on homes of journalists and if this had taken place in Zimbabwe this would have been rightly condemned.
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United Nations Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs/Emergency Relief Sir John Holmes told United States director for Multilateral Coordination and External Relations Margaret Pollack that Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai was not a good politician.
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The United States urged the European Union to expand its list of targeted sanctions of individuals and state-owned enterprises in Zimbabwe following the controversial presidential elections run-off of 2008 which Robert Mugabe won unchallenged after Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai had pulled out because of increased violence.
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Women of Zimbabwe Arise director Jenni Williams told United States embassy officials that Operation Restore Order had placed her group under additional stress because she no longer had contact with many of her members since they had been displaced.
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Forty-eight women including Jenni Williams, director of the Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), went on trial for violating the Public Order and Security Act.
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The director of the Women of Zimbabwe Arise Jenni Williams was arrested by police in Bulawayo during a planned demonstration against high taxation and told her sister that she had been severely beaten.
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China’s assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi told United States ambassador to China Clark Randt that the problem in Zimbabwe was not Robert Mugabe but Morgan Tsvangirai.
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Indonesia continued to question the United States’ proposed resolution to ask the United Nations to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe despite intense lobbying by Washington.
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South Africa’s ambassador to the United Nations Dumisani Kumalo strongly opposed the move by the United States to get the United Nations to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe arguing that “Europeans” wanted to install Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai as president of Zimbabwe.
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Botswana was one of the first African countries to publicly declare that it did not recognise President Robert Mugabe’s victory in the 2008 elections run-off from which Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai had pulled out because of violence.
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