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The United States said it had evidence that President Robert Mugabe and top government of Zimbabwe officials not only plotted to steal the 2008 presidential elections, but led a well-orchestrated and deeply disturbing military-style campaign of violence and intimidation against the opposition and its supporters.

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Botswana, which sent a 50-member delegation to observe the Zimbabwe presidential elections run-off of 2008, said it did not recognise the results of the elections because they were marred by violence which did not allow for free and fair elections.

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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, a hero of the country’s liberation struggle, could have become his country’s Nelson Mandela but instead became a second Idi Amin, a cable just released by Wikileaks says.

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Canada condemned the 2008 Presidential elections run-off which President Robert Mugabe won after Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out because of violence with Prime Minister Stephen Harper describing the elections as “stolen” and Foreign Minister David Emerson imposing restrictions on travel, work or study permits on senior government, military and police officials and their families.

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President Robert Mugabe did not care whether the white world was going to recognise him as the President of Zimbabwe, a Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter said after Mugabe had won the uncontested presidential elections run-off and was quickly sworn in so that he could attend the African Union summit in Egypt.

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Britain revoked the knighthood it had bestowed on President Robert Mugabe in 1994 as a sign of its displeasure with his decision to go ahead with the 2008 presidential elections run-off.

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Tanzania’s Foreign Minister Bernard Membe was thoroughly fed up with South African President Thabo Mbeki’s refusal to confront President Robert Mugabe even though there was evidence of ongoing violence and atrocities in the run-up to the 2008 presidential elections run-off.

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The head of the African Union observer mission to the presidential elections run-off of 2008, former Sierra Leone President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, said the elections fell short of the accepted AU standards.

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South Africa was an anchor country in United States-Africa policy but Zimbabwe remained a continuing challenge and an increasing concern to Pretoria because President Robert Mugabe showed little willingness to open the political environment and allow free and fair elections.

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African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma’s advisor Mo Shaik told United States embassy officials in Pretoria that the United States should not hold any notion that Zuma would favour Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

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