دكتاتور أفريقى على وشك الأنهيار: العقبة لنا فى المسرات!

Quote: Apr 1, 2007, 15:39 GMT Harare/Johannesburg - The whereabouts of nine Zimbabwean opposition activists was unknown Sunday after a late-night raid on their hospital by a group of soldiers, an opposition spokesman said. The activists were being treated at a private clinic in central Harare for beatings sustained while in police custody. They were arrested Tuesday and Wednesday during raids on their homes and on the headquarters of their Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Police claim the activists are behind a string of petrol bomb attacks in recent days. Soldiers came to the hospital on Saturday night and drove the badly-injured activists away in trucks, said Eliphas Mukonoweshuro of the MDC. 'They were abducted at midnight last night by a group of soldiers,' he told Deutsche Presse Agentur-dpa in a telephone interview. 'We don't know where they are,' he added. 'The lawyers are being rebuffed wherever they go.' The nine appeared in court on Saturday, where they were sent to hospital for treatment by the magistrate. They were being held at the clinic under police guard. 'What is happening now resembles the work of vigilantes,' said Mukonoweshuro.