Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Sunday he is pulling out of this week’s presidential runoff because mounting violence and intimidation have made it impossible to hold a credible election.
Tsvangirai announced his decision about Friday’s election during a news conference in Zimbabwe’s capital after thousands of ruling party militants blockaded the site of the opposition’s main campaign rally in a now routine pattern of intimidation.
“We can’t ask the people to cast their vote on June 27 when that vote will cost their lives. We will no longer participate in this violent sham of an election,” he said. “Mugabe has declared war, and we will not be part of that war.”
He said it is the United Nations’ responsibility to make sure the people of Zimbabwe are protected from the violence now under way in the country
In Mugabe’s feeble, yet evil mind, if you can’t beat the opposition, kill them.
Marxism, truly defined.
The Corner’s Michael Leeden opines (h/t: Instapundit):
So why are we paying the U.N. anyway? I once called it the biggest criminal enterprise in the world. But it’s worse than that. Top-notch criminal enterprises protect their own.
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