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China and Russia vetoed a United States-sponsored United Nations Security Council resolution that would have imposed a comprehensive arms embargo on Zimbabwe and subjected 14 senior members of the Zimbabwean government most responsible for the campaign of violence against the political opposition to an international asset freeze and travel ban.

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The United States placed President Robert Mugabe top of the list of Zimbabweans that it wanted placed on the United Nations sanctions list because of their human rights abuses and seriously undermining democracy.

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Reserve Bank government Gideon Gono told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee that President Robert Mugabe was physically weak despite a strong public face.

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The United States piled pressure for military intervention in Zimbabwe, one week after the African Union had failed to condemn the election of President Robert Mugabe, arguing that the reasons that were being put forward by two key members, Russia and China, were invalid.

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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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