Mugabe opponents forced to eat campaign posters

Posted by Cory Doctorow, March 26, 2008 6:58 AM | permalink

Supporters of the Zimbabwean opposition party Movement for Democratic Change were forced by Mugabe's intelligence offers to take down their party's campaign posters and then eat them.

According to Amnesty, the officials forced the opposition supporters to chew the posters and swallow them.
"We continue to receive reports of intimidation, harassment and violence against perceived supporters of opposition candidates - with many in rural regions fearful that there will be retribution after the elections," said Amnesty's Zimbabwe researcher, Simeon Mawanza, who has recently returned from the country.

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#1 posted by mad_prophet , March 26, 2008 7:53 AM

What's this, then? "Romanes eunt domus"? People called Romanes, they go, the house?

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#2 posted by website designer , March 26, 2008 8:27 AM

Well Mugabe and his cronies can behave this way with impunity knowing full well that no one is going to do anything about it.

I wonder who will win the upcoming elections? LOL.

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#3 posted by Suburbancowboy

, March 26, 2008 8:41 AM

Going forward, all opposition campaign posters will be printed on rice paper.

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#4 posted by thisgeek , March 26, 2008 10:13 AM

The so-called upcoming "democratic election" will be far from it.

Mugabe is a pig and should be put up against a wall and shot.

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#5 posted by Takuan , March 26, 2008 12:14 PM

when mugabe is finally thrown down, the blood will be waist deep

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article3621423.ece

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#6 posted by minamisan , March 26, 2008 5:23 PM

nice to see Mugabe has finally figured out a way to feed his country.

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#7 posted by Mac , March 26, 2008 9:57 PM

Mugabe forcing the opposition to eat campaign posters is nothing.

The documentary 'A Stranger in my homeland' gave eyewitness accounts of Mugabe's troops forcing a member of the opposition to not only chop off one of their own hands, but also forcing him to eat it. (The killed the poor guy after he endured all of that .. he might as well have simply refused)

Perhaps only forcing people to eat the posters is the new, softer side of Mugabe's regime.

Mac
(IMDB reference to the doco: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0763326/)