Safety In Numbers

As Zimbabwe prepares for March elections, participants in a parliamentary twinning program face governent hostility

Published February 2, 2005

A program twinning Canadian and Zimbabwean parliamentarians was designed to protect, in some small way, against state violence in the run-up to the 2002 presidential election.

It didn't do much. President Robert Mugabe's oppressive regime was reelected amid allegations of vote rigging, fraud and corruption. Similar claims about a violent campaign waged by the ruling Zimbabwean African National Union...

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