Zimbabwe opposition leader seeks foreign force June 25, 2008
Posted by nutritionalsupplementnews in : Uncategorized , trackbackHARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) — Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai called Wednesday for armed international peacekeepers to secure a new presidential election in the country where violence has marred a runoff set for this week.
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said he feared supporters could be injured if a runoff took place.
Tsvangirai won the most votes in the March 29 election but failed to gain a majority. He formally withdrew Tuesday from the runoff against President Robert Mugabe, who said Friday’s vote would take place as planned.
"We do not want armed conflict, but the people of Zimbabwe need the words of indignation from global leaders to be backed by the moral rectitude of military force," Tsvangirai wrote in Wednesday’s edition of the British newspaper The Guardian.
"Such a force would be in the role of peacekeepers, not troublemakers. They would separate the people from their oppressors and cast the protective shield around the democratic process for viagra nebenwirkung which Zimbabwe yearns."
The U.N. Security Council unanimously condemned the Zimbabwean government Monday for its campaign of violence and intimidation but stopped short of calling for a postponement of the runoff or for a new election.
Tsvangirai, however, was clear.
"The next stage should be a new presidential election," he wrote. "The reality is that a new election, devoid of violence and intimidation, is the only way to put Zimbabwe right."
Meanwhile, Mugabe said Tuesday that the runoff will happen as planned. "We will proceed with our election; the verdict is our verdict," he said at a rally in Bankent. "Other people can say what they want, but the elections are ours. We are a sovereign state, and that is it.
"They can shout as loud as they like from Washington or from London or from any other quarter. Our people, only our people, will decide, and no one else."
The Movement for Democratic Change hand-delivered a letter signed by Tsvangirai to the electoral commission Tuesday, saying it will not participate in the runoff with Mugabe, spokesman Nelson Chamisa said.
"The situation … now is very different from what has been experienced in this country since cialis online kaufen www independence," Tsvangirai wrote in the letter.
"The violence, intimidation, death, destruction of property is just too much for anyone to dream of a free and fair election, let alone expect our people to be able to freely and independently express to free themselves. For this reason, my party and I have resolved that we cannot be part to this flawed process."
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