the scene from an unarmed democracy

Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has no intention of giving up his seat to his rival Morgan Tsvangirai. Although Tsvangirai won the presidential election in late March, Mugabe was able to seal enough of a margin to force a runoff election on June 27th. In the meantime, Mugabe is pulling out the guns, literally. After recently running 40,000 opposition supporters off their farmlands, he now is consipiring to assassinate Tsvangirai.

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