President Mugabe Threatens To Arrest Political Rival In Zimbabwe
Reuters news agency reports that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe threatened Monday to arrest Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition leader who faces Mugabe in a runoff election for president June 27. The news agency says Mugabe issued the threat at a campaign rally in Kadoma, south of the capital of Harare.
He said the authorities were warning Tsvangirai and others opposition leaders “that we will not hesitate to arrest them (for violence), and we will do that in broad daylight.” Official results of a disputed election March 29 showed Tsvangirai beat Mugabe, but not by enough votes to avoid a run-off.
The Associated Press, reporting on another Mugabe rally on Sunday, quotes him as saying: “We shed a lot of blood for this country. We are not going to give up our country for a mere X” on a ballot. How can a ballpoint pen fight with a gun?” The AP said the quote appeared in The Herald, a government mouthpiece.
The Herald carries a story on the rally in its English online version, but paraphrases the key quote. The quote appears to run verbatim in the story, but is in the local Shona language in which it was delivered, the only word in English being “ballpoint.”
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