Zimbabwe president vows to 'flush out' critics in clampdown
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) ??" Zimbabwe's president, calling the main opposition party "terrorist," vowed to flush out opponents in an ongoing clampdown in which scores of opposition members and government critics have been arrested and rights groups allege security forces have carried out illegal abductions and torture. President Emmerson Mnangagwa described critics as "dark forces," and "a few bad apples" that should be "overcome," in an address on state television Tuesday. The arrests started an...
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