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MDC
distances itself from crude propaganda
Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC)
April 17, 2008
The MDC distances itself
from the crude propaganda being distributed on the streets of Harare
and Bulawayo by Zanu PF and their agents and calling for violence
against the regime and its supporters.
A pamphlet is being distributed
today purporting to come from the Movement for Democratic Change
and advocating violence against members of Zanu PF and the destruction
of their property and businesses.
The MDC has never advocated
violence in any form. We disassociate ourselves from the content
and purpose of these pamphlets and call on our members and supporters
to continue to observe our peaceful non-violent means of democratic
resistance to the illegal regime led by Robert Mugabe.
Our call for a national
"stay at home" campaign was precisely for this purpose;
to provide ordinary Zimbabweans with a chance to show their displeasure
at the refusal of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to release the
results of the recently held elections that were clearly won outright
by the MDC.
It is the view of the
MDC that these pamphlets are a crude attempt to incite the people
to commit acts of violence and thereby justify the present violent
clamp down on all MDC structures around Zimbabwe and against MDC
supporters. It will also be used to justify a state of emergency
and this can only further heighten tensions and exacerbate the existing
crisis in the country.
The MDC urges all its
members to ignore this call to violence and to recognize that this
is a just another attempt to force an escalation of the tensions
and chaos in the country.
Nelson Chamisa
Secretary for Information and Publicity
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