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Zimbabwe : Tsvangirai accused of treason
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Zimbabwe : Tsvangirai accused of treason
Zimbabwe?s government yesterday accused opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai of treason and of working with former colonial power Britain to topple President Robert Mugabe in recent elections. Responding to a chorus of international criticism of Zimbabwe?s long delay in issuing results of the March 29 vote, Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa accused Tsvangirai ? who says he defeated Mugabe in the election ? of being a British puppet. At a summit of the United Nations and African Union on the day bfore, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said: ?No one thinks, having seen the results of polling stations, that President Mugabe has won.?
Chinamasa responded: ?It is clear from the correspondence that Tsvangirai along with Brown are seeking regime change in Zimbabwe, and on the part of Tsvangirai, this is treasonous.? He added in a statement in state media: ?There is no doubting the consequences for acting in a treasonous manner.?
Tsvangirai?s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) accuses Mugabe of organising a violent militia crackdown to help him steal the March 29 elections, in which his ZANU-PF party lost control of parliament for the first time in his 28-year rule.
No official results have been released from the presidential vote which has been embroiled in a series of legal cases.
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