Rights Group Says Mugabe Is Starving Foes
President Robert Mugabe has tightened control over Zimbabwe’s food supplies, starving opponents and manipulating aid to enforce his hold on power, a Danish human rights group said.
“If it is not possible to increase nonpartisan food supplies into the country ... starvation and eventually death will occur along party political lines,” Christian Tramsen of Physicians for Human Rights-Denmark told a news conference in South Africa.
Mugabe’s party rejects the allegation. Half of Zimbabwe’s 11 million people are at risk of starvation, the U.N. says.
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