To whom it may concern

You may have seen news reports lately of events in

Zimbabwe, especially regards MDC leader Morgan

Tsvangirai being beaten. But what has been missing is

the context and history.

http://www.swans.com/library/art8/elich004.html

I hope you are aware that the MDC is funded by the

western powers, like US and UK: most people are not.

So i wish to bring the following recent article to

your attention:

http://www.africaspeaks.com/articles/2007/1503.html

in which we learn:

'In the article 'Zimbabwe: State Warns MDC Against

Lawlessness' copied from the Zimbabwe government's

website, and another article from the BBC's website

'Eyewitness: Harare's brutal clash' that purports to

be an eyewitness account of what happened, one gets

that the opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, among

others, were deliberately defying the law and

provoking a violent confrontation with the police and

the government. As the so-called eyewitness said:

"All in all there were only about 30 police and there

were more than 1,000 - we were too many for them. They

could not control what was happening."

and,

"We picked up their [police] discarded sticks and used

them to beat their left-behind colleagues"

From that BBC article 'Eyewitness: Harare's brutal

clash', there is no way we can deduce that the police

and the government were to blame for the clash between

over a thousand protesters, mostly youths, and thirty

police officers. The small number of police officers

who were eventually overpowered by the protesters

clearly showed that the police did not come out in

huge numbers prepared for a violent confrontation. '

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Now you may be aware of recetn protests in the US,

where non-violent protestors were arrested.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030607P.shtml

http://peacejournalism.com/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=17738

So its ok for protestors to be arrested in US, but not

in Zimbabwe, especially when in Zimbabwe, they

deliberatly resorted to violence.

These facts are being ignored by the MSM, and

democractically elected Mugabe continues to be

demonised in favour of the western pastsy Tsvangirai.

regards

Brian Souter