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Os Cangaceiros
23rd February 2011, 03:02
No, wait, actually it was because they were trying to "subvert a constitutionally-elected government". :rolleyes:


JOHANNESBURG — Dozens of students, trade unionists and political activists who gathered to watch Al Jazeera (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/al_jazeera/index.html?inline=nyt-org) and BBC (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/british_broadcasting_corporation/index.html?inline=nyt-org) news reports on the uprisings that brought down autocrats in Tunisia and Egypt have been arrested on suspicion of plotting to oust President Robert Mugabe (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/robert_mugabe/index.html?inline=nyt-per) of Zimbabwe (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/zimbabwe/index.html?inline=nyt-geo).

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/world/africa/22zimbabwe.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha22

psgchisolm
23rd February 2011, 03:17
No, wait, actually it was because they were trying to "subvert a constitutionally-elected government".


Well it was "elected" guys...:lol: