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Beatrice Mtetwa said the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was implementing the Global Political Agreement slowly in order to rebuild its structures for a future campaign of violence and intimidation.

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A Harare magistrate Catherine Chimanda nearly engaged in a shouting match with lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa who was representing another human rights lawyer Alec Muchadehama according to the United States embassy.

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Former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano said President Robert Mugabe was very focused on the succession issue and he was willing to step aside before elections in 2008 if, by doing so, he would not be seen as giving in to outside pressure.

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An Australian academic who was a strong critic of Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and was deported from Rhodesia in the 1970s was given 48 hours to leave Botswana after he had written a paper which criticised that country’s presidential succession.

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A daily newspaper urged United States President George Bush to put pressure on South African President Thabo Mbeki to force Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to negotiate with the Movement for Democratic Change to end the country’s political and economic crisis.

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Father Fidelis Mukonori, a close confidante of President Robert Mugabe who was at times referred to as Mugabe’s personal priest, told United States embassy officials that Mugabe was prepared to step down provided he was assured of immunity and well being for himself and his family and he was treated with the dignity that he had accorded to former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai wrote United States President George Bush asking him to urge the United Nations to intervene in Zimbabwe to prevent a humanitarian crisis because President Robert Mugabe had recreated conditions of the Rhodesian crisis in 1965, when Ian Smith unilaterally declared independence and established an illegitimate government to block black majority rule.

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Beatrice Mtetwa, who was representing Movement for Democratic Change treasurer Roy Bennett, told United States embassy officials that she had become a target of the state.

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“There is no law in Zimbabwe that allows anybody to grab you in your night clothes, put you in a car, blindfold you and take you to undisclosed places for three weeks without your family knowing where you are.”

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Beatrice Mtetwa, who was representing Jestina Mukoko who had been abducted from her home by unknown persons, said she had been refused access to her client when police refused to show her log books of detainees in jail.

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