Zimbabwe: Africa must avert a bloodbath


	Zimbabwe: Africa must avert a bloodbath

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4-9-2008 8:29 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4f689d77-7a5f-4f9c-84c7-88a88cbe0bed/EA48A08C-4C3E-4E9C-BD53-00937C9D76C6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=558226&in_page_id=1811" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=558226&in_page_id=1811" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailymail.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=558226&in_page_id=1811"> African states must intervene in Zimbabwe to prevent widespread bloodshed, the country's opposition warned yesterday. 
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Party leaders accused president Robert Mugabe of trying to provoke violence as a pretext for a state of emergency - and to intimidate his opponents ahead of a likely run-off election. 
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The claims came amid growing reports that ruling party thugs were escalating their invasions of white-owned farms.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=558226&in_page_id=1811"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/8AC713F5-3951-4E36-AA17-293B3A3B66EF" alt="Tendai Biti" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=558226&in_page_id=1811"><P>Tendai Biti: The secretary general of Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, has called for other African nations to help the stricken country </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=558226&in_page_id=1811"><P>
Tendai Biti, the secretary-general of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, appealed to African states to act, saying: "I say to my brothers and sisters across the continent - don't wait for dead bodies in the streets of Harare. 
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"There is a constitutional and legal crisis in Zimbabwe."
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