Regional silence on Zim crisis 'loud'

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HARARE: Pro-democracy activists lashed out at the lack of a regional response to the "deteriorating human rights" situation in Zimbabwe as two activists were shot and wounded by police in the capital, Harare, on Tuesday, the third day of police crackdowns.

"At the very least they can issue a condemnation of the brutality and torture, and urge the Zimbabwe government to take action against the police," said Brian Raftopoulos, a Zimbabean academic and curently African affairs specialist at the South African-based Institute for Justice and Reconciliation.

"The silence from the region and SADC [Southern African Development Community] on the situation in our country is loud," said a bitter Jacob Mafume, coordinator of Crisis in Zimbabwe, a coalition of more than 300 civil society organisations.

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