HARARE - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai The MDC has announced that it will hold its 10th anniversary celebratory rally at Zimbabwe Grounds in Highfields on November 29 to celebrate a “decade of courage, conviction and leadership.??On 11 March 2007, Tsvangirai was brutally assaulted following an aborted prayer meeting at Zimbabwe Grounds. The images of his brutal went global and received wide condemnation.
Five days later on March 16, Tsvangirai published an account of his arrest and brutal assault.??I never realised Mugabe (Robert, President) and his criminal team would go this far. But I do not seek to be a martyr. Please help us to achieve change,” he wrote. “Seeing a police station, which must be a sanctuary for the protection of the rights of citizens, being converted into a hell-hole was heart-wrenching.
“Seeing police officers trash their constitutional duties in favour of brutalising innocent civilians trying to exercise their basic freedoms was equally devastating. Yes, they brutalised my flesh. But they will never break my spirit. I will soldier on until Zimbabwe is free.
The MDC leader has since formed a unity government with Mugabe and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara in a bid to ease political tensions in the country and an economic and humanitarian crisis that was threatening the lives of millions of Zimbabweans.
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