The killing of Cain

ZANU-PF targets the MDC after the unsolved murder of a war veteran

A cartoon in the state-owned daily Herald on 19 November showed the opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, glad-handing his backers - the independent press, the European Union, Britain and Denmark. The previous day, President Robert Mugabe had accused the British government of involvement in a terrorist plot whose 'brutal outcome' was the murder of a war veteran, Cain Nkala, whose body was found in a shallow grave near Bulawayo on 13 November.

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Morgan Tsvangirai, Britain, Denmark, Robert Mugabe, Cain Nkala, Fletcher Dlamini Ncube, Dumiso Dabengwa, John Makumbe, United States, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Australia, Canada, Jamaica, Stan Mudenge, Simba Makoni, Malawi, Bakili Muluzi, Membathisi Mdladlana, Thabo Mbeki, Nelson Mandela, Zambia, Botswana, Festus Mogae, Simon Muzenda, Standard

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