215 MDC activists detained in Zimbabwe
By Admore Tshuma
Zimbabwean police under instructions of embattled president Mugabe have arrested 215 people after raiding MDC’s Harvest House headquarters in central Harare , The Zim Diaspora has established with police confirmation.
Those arrested were opposition MDC activists including villagers running away from ZANU-PF militias in rural areas. They were seeking sanctuary in the MDC offices.
In a typical banana state, police in riot gear also searched offices of the Zimbabwe Election Support Network in the city in a development that has been condemned worldwide.
The arrest follows a March 29 elections clumsy conducted election whose presidential elections has been kept secret four weeks after.
A television footage shown by the BBC confirms that Zimbabwe was in a war with its own people. Women with children on their backs including MDC staff at the Harvest house were ushered into a waiting police bus.
Speaking in Britain this week, ANC president Jacob Zuma condemned the withholding of the presidential results saying it created an undemocratic environment.
Zuma said if Mugabe sat down for talks with former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith in 1979, he could not understand why he was failing to open up a dialogue with MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai.