To A Pulp

clipped from www.davidwarrenonline.com We finally have a result in the Zimbabwe election. Over the weekend, the man who won it, Morgan Tsvangirai, withdrew from the run-off, thus clinching the presidential poll for the incumbent and loser, Robert Mugabe, after nearly three months of murder and mayhem. An official letter from the challenger’s party, the Movement for Democratic Change (which also won the Parliamentary elections), confirmed yesterday that the run-off would not be contested, to save the lives of as many party supporters as possible. Mr Tsvangirai himself immediately sought refuge in the Dutch embassy at Harare, trusting not in his opponent’s magnanimity. He had already been arrested and beaten five times during the election campaign -- in one instance “to a pulp” according to persons who saw him just after his release.