'Tsvangirai deserved beating'
30/03/2007 14:48  - (SA)  

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Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Friday he had acknowledged to his fellow African leaders that opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai had been assaulted, but said he deserved it.

"Yes, I told them he was beaten but he asked for it," Mugabe told supporters the day after returning from a regional summit in Tanzania.

He said: "We got full backing, not even one criticised our actions.

"There is no country in SADC (the Southern African Development Community) that can stand up and say Zimbabwe has faulted.

"SADC does not do that, it is not a court but an organisation of 14 countries that co-operates with each other and supports each other."

Tsvangirai's arrest and subsequent assault on March 11 while trying to attend an anti-government rally was widely condemned by the West but the SADC summit, which was meant to address the crisis in Zimbabwe, ended up with a statement of "solidarity" with the 83-year-old Mugabe's government.

- AFP

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