Morgan Tsvangirai, the Zimbabwean opposition leader who sustained injuries in the police excesses last Sunday when he was arrested with a number of his supporters continues his campaign against president Robert Mugabe.
A bruised Tsvangirai said ‘Seeing police officers trash their constitutional duties in favour of brutalising innocent civilians trying to exercise their basic freedoms was devastating’.
‘They brutalised my flesh, but they will never break my spirit’ he said.
The physical onslaught took place inside the police station. The police mostly targeted my head and my face, I felt like my head had been smashed open or I had been partially decapitated, Tsvangirai said. The assaults were punctuated with obscene verbal attacks on Tsvangirai, his family and his supporters.
Tsvangirai said ‘Democratic change in Zimbabwe is within sight. Far from killing my spirit, the scars they brutally inflicted on me have re-energised me. I only seek a new dispensation in my country in which citizens live freely in prosperity and not in fear of their rulers.’
Elections in Zimbabwe are expected to be held in 2008. President Robert Mugabe has announced that he will run in the elections. Mugabe is in power in Zimbabwe ever since the country became independent in 1980.
