61. Rao said India wants to see a multiethnic government replace that of the ruling Taliban militants in Afghanistan. 62. Scores of opposition activists have been killed and the government has tacitly sanctioned the violent seizures of white-owned farms by ruling party militants. 63. Scores of opposition supporters have been arrested in recent weeks and few ruling party militants have been detained. 64. Riot police were sent to the southwestern Harare suburb of Budiriro, scene of repeated clashes in previous weeks between ruling party militants and opposition supporters. 65. Ruling party militants armed with axes and clubs ransacked the home of an opposition party official Thursday, opposition officials said. 66. Ruling party militants assaulted a farmer in eastern Zimbabwe on Wednesday despite an accord to end violence on white-owned farms, farmer leaders said. 67. Ruling party militants were seen waiting outside at least one Harare counting station. 68. Ruling party militants and veterans of the war that ended white minority rule began violently occupying white-owned farms in February. 69. Ruling party militants, with tacit government backing, have demanded the farms be redistributed to landless blacks. 70. Ruling party militants and security forces were part of a campaign of intense attacks against the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, observers said. |