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Zimbabwe Prime Minister Tsvangirai hurt in crash; wife killed

World Mar. 07, 2009 - 04:13AM JST ( 5 )

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MadvertsMar. 07, 2009 - 04:40PM JST

I know they're saying the is no reason for foul-play...

....I just don't believe a word of it.
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TriumvereMar. 07, 2009 - 05:24PM JST

"I'm skeptical about any motor vehicle accident in Zimbabwe involving an opposition figure," said Tom McDonald, the U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe from 1997 to 2001. "President Mugabe has a history of strange car accidents when someone lo and behold dies -- it's sort of his M.O. of how they get rid of people they don't like." Watch more on the fatal crash »

McDonald cited the 2001 death of Defense Minister Moven Mahachi, Employment Minister Border Gezi's death in 1999 and the death last year of Elliot Manyika, a government minister and former regional governor.

All three died in car crashes.

Thats from CNN.
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MadvertsMar. 07, 2009 - 10:33PM JST

Now the MDC are saying it was deliberate.

Jeez mugabe needs a .357 suppositry.
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unscrejectsMar. 08, 2009 - 10:10PM JST

Madverts: as your moniker implies - I'd be privileged to offer the same to you. I have every reason to believe that your people wanted to kill Tsvangirai for turning against you - why only the day before the wreck he demanded sanctions be lifted. The Brits are now saying no foul play because their truck was the offending vehicle! The same European story in Africa now isn't it? When you're guilty it's an accident. When it's an accident the blacks are guilty. On the man you quote - Tom McDonald: how convenient that he left out the death of Chenjerai Hunzvi - the leader of the war veterans who was behind the rise of the MDC through his persistent call for benefits - "1997 June the US Black Business Leaders visit to Harare is disrupted by the ZCTU (led by Mr. Tsvangarai) storming into the Harare COnference Centre during a discussion between the visitors and Mugabe - rioting and demanding that 23% of all white owned businesses be given to indigenious people, farm land be repossessed forcefully... everything they're heaping on Mugabe today. Do you recall that CNN blasted Mugabe for calling the riot police out? Heavy handed they called it. Do you also recall that the humiliation for Zimbabwe on that day was the factor that led to the bad blood between Mugabe and Tsvangirai? And the very fact that the west strategically sidesteps any reference to what Tsvangirai was doing that winter - Iron Mask Farm occupation instigated by the ZCTU and for which Mugabe got roasted by the international press when he called the Support Unit to evict them. Bad blood boils when Mugabe is called the farmers enemy and MDC their friend. Google "ZCTU strike 1997" Do you recall that the US ambassador to Zimbabwe at the time was Tom McDonald? Apparantly either Mr. McDonald, CNN or yourself have conveniently forgotten what's behind the crisis and hostility between Zimbabweans in general and the leadership of the MDC - business leaders and economists forcing Mugabe to crush the Tsvangirai group while at the same time South Africa is forcing Britain to crush Mugabe.
Tsvangirai's wife was killed in a crash involving one of his allies vehicles - no amount of spinning by your lot will change the equation. It seems like you folks want to get rid of him for trying to work things out with Mugabe. This time Africans will start to ask the questions, not your lot.
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unscrejectsMar. 08, 2009 - 10:23PM JST

Roy Bennett was caught with a large cache of arms of his farm - that's not political. The west is quick to respond to Zimbabwean charges with the "The claims are baseless..." The last time I checked, the meaning of baseless is, "You have no proof" rather than, "it never happened". In the Botswana case of training MDC would-be fighters, all the evidence is there but of course the press will never accept it. Mr. Bennetts weapons for instance which were smuggled in through (and the help of) Mozambique were a classic example of selective journalism. And on the matter of sanitation, out here in this Asian country it has been insisted to me and an NPO I was working with(from 1999 through 2006) that no water can ever be pumped from the Zambezi River to any Zimbabwean town at the direct request of Britain - because as the faxes clearly stated, "the pipes would have to cross through white owned farms, something which we cannot allow..." On the call for water purification materials we were politely told in 2006 that South Africa was the one that would decide what could enter Zimbabwe and water purification materials were absolutely not permitted. Mass murder is what it is and South Africa is the major killer in Zimbabwe, like it or not.