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Punishing Dissent and Silencing Citizens: The Zimbabwe Elections 2008

Elections & violence

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Date recorded: May 21, 2008

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2008 & Beyond
Elections

Summary: The 2008 Harmonised Election in Zimbabwe was arguably the most historic of the post-independence elections, as for the first time in the last 28 years the ruling party lost its parliamentary majority and the President lost the first round of the Presidential election. This result represented the culmination of a decade of political and civic opposition to a former liberation party whose legitimacy has been greatly eroded by nearly three decades of intolerant rule.

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punish_and_silence.pdf
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