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Tsvangirai threatens to suspend Zimbabwe talks
Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:52am EST
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Friday he would ask for power-sharing talks with President Robert Mugabe to be suspended if the government did not stop persecuting political opponents.
Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, and Mugabe agreed to form a unity government three months ago. Their accord spurred hopes the ruined nation might recover from a deep economic and humanitarian crisis.
But the power-sharing talks are close to unraveling as a result of disagreement over control of key ministries and a wave of abductions of MDC supporters and other anti-Mugabe activists.
The MDC blames Mugabe's ZANU-PF party for the violence.
"If these abductions do not cease immediately, and if all the abductees are not released or charged in a court of law by January 1, 2009, I will be asking the MDC's National Council to pass a resolution to suspend all negotiations and contact with ZANU-PF," Tsvangirai said in a news conference in Gaborone.
Tsvangirai defeated Mugabe in a March presidential election but without an absolute majority. He pulled out of the run-off in June, saying scores of his supporters had been killed.
His threat came amid growing international concerns over the spread of a cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe and renewed calls for Mugabe, 84, to step down or be ousted.
Botswana's foreign minister and Kenya's prime minister are among those in Africa who have called for military intervention to end his 28-year rule.
Mugabe, however, said African nations lacked the courage to use troops to remove his government.
"How could African leaders ever topple Robert Mugabe, organize an army to come? It is not easy," the state-run Herald newspaper quoted Mugabe as saying in a meeting on Thursday with the ZANU-PF central committee.
"I do not know of any African country that is brave enough to do that."
CHOLERA DEATHS RISE
Most of Zimbabwe's neighbors reject military intervention, including regional powerhouse South Africa. Western countries have urged Mugabe to step down but have not gone so far as to openly support using force.
Many African leaders are reluctant to confront Mugabe, in power since independence from Britain in 1980 and still viewed as a liberation-era hero on much of the continent.
But Zimbabwe's economic and humanitarian crisis and Mugabe's poor human rights record has weakened African support. Continued...
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