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KEN SILVERSTEIN?Africa?s Worst Dictator: No, it?s not Mugabe |
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Contributed by Ken Silverstein
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The situation in Zimbabwe is an outrage and I can understand why the Bush Administration, and the entire Western world, is appalled by President Robert Mugabe?s anti-democratic depredations. As has been widely reported by the American media, opposition parties won control of the national assembly in a March balloting, and Mugabe finished second behind an opposition leader in presidential voting, triggering a run-off as neither candidate won an absolute majority. The opposition is threatening to boycott the run-off, since it says that its candidate won the first-round election outright and ?has ended Mugabe?s 28-year rule over the once prosperous country whose economy is in ruins.? . . .
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