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Zimbabwe prelate rips Mugabe government
Catholic World News (CWNews.com)
August 17, 2004

http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=31540

Harare - An outspoken Catholic prelate in Zimbabwe has vowed that he will not temper his criticism of the country's President Robert Mugabe as long as the government continues to exploit its citizens.

"I can't stop talking, because it is a God-given duty to talk when his people are being persecuted," Archbishop Pius Ncube of Bulawayo told the Zimbabwe Standard. "They are suffering."

The archbishop told the Standard that thousands of people are suffering from hunger because of government corruption and mismanagement, and thousands more are leaving the country to escape Zimbabwe's economic depression and Mugabe's authoritarian rule.

Archbishop Ncube has been persistent in his public attacks on the Mugabe regime, charging that the government has attempted to silence critics through both bribery and intimidation. He has also charged that the government is seizing land from white farmers, and distributing it among Mugabe's supporters.

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