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'Crimes against humanity'
17/03/2007 09:16 - (SA)
London - A senior British minister said on Friday that attempts by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to suppress opposition to his regime were "bordering on crimes against humanity".
Amid international condemnation at the arrest and beating of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, foreign office minister Lord David Triesman said those involved needed to be hit with tough sanctions.
He also called on African leaders to be "completely explicit" in condemning Mugabe and the international community, in particular the United Nations Human Right Council, to do more to end the violence.
In a BBC radio interview, Triesman said: "I do think the actions (of Mugabe's government) over quite a period now... look to me to be bordering on crimes against humanity."
That included his suppression of Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and the forced eviction of thousands of people in Harare slums in 2005, he added.
Tsvangirai, who suffered head injuries, himself vowed in an article published in The Independent newspaper on Friday to fight on until his country is free and urged the world to maintain pressure for democratic change.
- AFP
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