Wednesday, December 10, 2008

WEDNESDAYS PIC FROM ZIMBABWE

Zimbabwe's Lawyers for Human Rights march to Parliament in Harare Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008 calling for the release of Jestina Mukoko. Mukoko, director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, was allegedly abducted by 12 unidentified people last week. Zimbabwean security officials regularly detain, harass and beat opponents of Mugabe's increasingly autocratic rule, although the government denies such allegations. A judge on Tuesday ordered police to investigate Mukoko's disappearance.



Zimbabweans wait for their turn to fetch water from a borehole in Harare, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008. According to the United Nations the death toll from an outbreak of Cholera in Zimbabwe has soared to 750 people as rights groups denounced President Robert Mugabe over a wave of abductions of activists in the country.






Zimbabwe's Lawyers for Human Rights march to Parliament in Harare Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008 calling for the release of Jestina Mukoko, portrayed on the banner. Mukoko, director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, was allegedly abducted by 12 unidentified people last week. Zimbabwean security officials regularly detain, harass and beat opponents of Mugabe's increasingly autocratic rule, although the government denies such allegations. A judge on Tuesday ordered police to investigate Mukoko's disappearance.






A lawyer holds up a protest poster as Zimbabwe's Lawyers for Human Rights march to Parliament in Harare Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008 calling for the release of Jestina Mukoko. Mukoko, director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, was allegedly abducted by 12 unidentified people last week. Zimbabwe is also suffering a cholera epidemic from which he death toll from which has risen sharply, the United Nations said Wednesday, reporting 746 deaths and 15,572 cases of the water-borne disease. Cholera has spread in Zimbabwe because of the country's crumbling health care system and water infrastructure.





Zimbabweans wait for their turn to fetch water from an underground water point in Harare, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008. 





Zimbabwe's Lawyers for Human Rights march to Parliament in Harare Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008 calling for the release of Jestina Mukoko. Mukoko, director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, was allegedly abducted by 12 unidentified people last week. Zimbabwean security officials regularly detain, harass and beat opponents of Mugabe's increasingly autocratic rule, although the government denies such allegations. A judge on Tuesday ordered police to investigate Mukoko's disappearance.






A cholera patient rests on her bed inside a ward of Budiriro Polyclinic in Harare December 10, 2008. The death toll from Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak soared to nearly 800 on Wednesday and a court ordered police to find a missing rights activist, piling more pressure on President Robert Mugabe's government.






















A woman carries water on her head whilst carrying her child on her back in the Budiriro suburb in Harare December 10, 2008. The death toll from Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak soared to nearly 800 on Wednesday and a court ordered police to find a missing rights activist, piling more pressure on President Robert Mugabe's government.






Residents queue to collect drinking water from a borehole in Budiriro suburb in Harare December 10, 2008. 











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Mugabe and Tsvangirai have failed us.

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