Ntuane slams govt on Zim crisis

He said the Botswana government is failing to speak up against the ills of its Zimbabwean counterpart and must suffer the consequences.

He quoted from the BBC website the latest reports on the arrest of the Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai after police violently dispersed demonstrators who were protesting in a campaign dubbed 'Save Zimbabwe'. Ntuane read out to an attentive Parliament a statement from United States spokesman Sean McCormarck. It said: "The United States government condemns the brutal and unwarranted actions of the government of Zimbabwe on the 11th March in attacking its citizens peacefully gathered to exercise their legitimate democratic rights," he said. He stated that the story pointed out that so far there has been no word from any of Zimbabwe's neighbours.