Reply #5: 10,000 'died of hunger' in Zimbabwe [View All]

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Andrew Meldrum in Pretoria
Sunday January 11, 2004
The Observer

Amid claims that up to 10,000 Zimbabweans have died from malnutrition in the past year, President Robert Mugabe has been accused of raiding his country's dwindling coffers to fund an extended holiday in Asia.
The charges against Mugabe came as police yesterday arrested three senior journalists from the Zimbabwe Independent newspaper for reporting his winter break.

Editor Iden Wetherell, news editor Vincent Kahiya and senior reporter Dumisani Muleya are being held on charges that the newspaper criminally defamed Mugabe by reporting that he commandeered an Air Zimbabwe jet for his three-week trip.

'I told police that we stand by our story,' Wetherell said when reached by mobile phone while in police custody. 'The police say the plane was chartered by Mugabe.'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,2763,1120539,00.html