In case you haven’t seen in the news, the situation in Zimbabwe is turning very ugly (even more so). People are getting critically wounded and killed during prayer rallies.
Zimbabwe police have arrested one of the chief opponents to President Robert Mugabe’s government during a blockade to a protest prayer rally planned for Sunday.
Organizers had planned to address Zimbabwe’s spiraling economic and political crisis at the rally organized by The Save Zimbabwe Campaign, a coalition of church, rights and opposition groups campaigning for political change in the country.
It was quickly thwarted, however, by truckloads of armed police who prevented local residents from getting to the stadium in the Harare township of Highfield where the rally was due to take place.
Riot squads arrested main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, head of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party, along with dozens of other MDC officials and activists, while one MDC activist was shot dead. Police said he had ignored warning shots after leading a gang of protestors in hurling rocks at the police.
“They were ordered to disperse but began to advance menacingly at the officers,” said Wayne Bvudzijena, national police spokesman, in an Agence France Presse report.
“Warning shots were fired and the group still advanced. The police shot one male adult who appeared to be the leader of the group in the chest. He died on the spot and the group dispersed.”
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