Critics can 'go hang' - Mugabe
15/03/2007 16:25  - (SA)  

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Harare - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe on Thursday said Western critics of his government can "go hang" in his first response to the arrest and assault of opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai.

"When they criticise the government when it tries to prevent violence and punish perpetrators of that violence we take the position that they can go hang," said Mugabe after talks with Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete.

Mugabe said that Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change had been the instigators of violence.

"Here are groups of people who went out of their way to effect acts of violence.

"We hear no criticism to this campaign from Western governments," he added.

- SAPA

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