President Robert Mugabe's authoritarian regime came under growing international condemnation following a violent crackdown on a weekend gathering of opposition activists that has bolstered Zimbabwe's opposition movement.The main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, suffered a suspected skull fracture, brain injury and internal bleeding in the violence, and results of a brain scan were expected Thursday. Lawyers and other activists said he was savagely beaten in police custody.
Police used tear gas, water cannon and live ammunition to crush Sunday's gathering by the Save Zimbabwe Campaign, a coalition of opposition, church and civic groups, in Harare's western township of Highfield. Police shot and killed one opposition activist, identified as Gift Tandare.
In Britain, William Hague of the opposition Conservative Party urged his government and EU states to "rigorously enforce" economic sanctions and travel bans on Zimbabwe.
State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey said Wednesday that the United States "has in place a number of sanctions against those responsible for repressing democratic efforts in Zimbabwe."
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Go after this asshole instead. This would be a much shorter war and the US would be greeted as liberators.. ;)