April 27, 2008 - Many voters fear the outcome of the 2008 Zimbabwe's Presidential Elections. For over 28 years, Former President Robert Mugabe's and the ZANU-PF party have ruled Zimbabwe. As a result, the country has suffered from economic and political turmoil. His opponent, Morgan Tsvangirai and his party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) wanted to put a end to the corruption by running up against the ZANU-PF party. After waiting for a week for the 2008 election results, the opposionist party and the voters became very concerned that there were no announcements. Presidential candidate, Tsvangirai, believed that Mugabe strategically planned to delay the results. The following week, Tsvangirai and MDG party issued a complaint to the court as a way to force out the results of the March 29 election. Tsvangirai announced that he is not suprised that President Mugabe would try to use a presidential runoff vote to reverse its defeat in elections.
On Sunday, a recount of votes alledgely confirmed that Morgan Tsvangirai party won full control of the parliment. According to tally results, the Zimbabewan Sunday newspaper claimed that the election authorities confirmed that Tsvangirai won the majority. However, Zimbabwe election authorities will not reveal the results until later on this week.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission called for a regional meeting with both parties to discuss the post-election crisis. Before the new results are released to the public, both parties will be able to scrutinze the entire recount.
At the same time, violent uprises continues to spread riots. Hundreds of MDG supports have been attacked and burned out of their homes. About 250 law enforcement officers raided MDG party's headquarters in Harare. Several people have suffered from head injuries. Only 10 have been murdered.
The 2008 Zimbabwe Elections created a huge international outcry. Tsvangirai and his party called for the United Nations for further investigation. So far, Britain urged the UN Security Council to take part in the human rights abuse and to urged Mugabe to resign.
3 comments:
THIS IS THE EPITOME OF BLACK ON BLACK CRIME!
You are absolutely right!
Wow, this is just terrible. I hope they can work their way through all this.
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