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Article: Zimbabwe's Mugabe Officially Sworn In; President Condemns Detractors in Speech
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 30, 2008
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President Robert Mugabe cemented his government's hold over
Zimbabwe on Sunday with the announcement of his overwhelming
election victory followed by an inauguration before the approving
gazes of the military leaders who engineered his brutal political
comeback.
To the rat-a-tat-tat of snare drums and the roar of fighter jets
overhead, an unsmiling Mugabe stood ramrod straight before
Zimbabwe's newly unified ruling clique, which all but obliterated
the opposition after his loss in the first round of voting in March.
In a runoff Friday, boycotted by his only rival, Morgan
Tsvangirai, Mugabe got 85.5 percent of the vote, according to
official results. Two key African observer missions sharply ...