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This post may well ruin your Saturday breakfast, and it is shocking. The article highlights some of the physical violence used by those working for Mr Mugabe and his friends in their campaign to retain power in Zimbabwe. Not pleasant - but neither is Zanu PF’s campaign.

I have been running a Flick-R photo feed about abuse and violence meted out by Robert Mugabe’s followers and thugs to those opposing his regime in the elections in Zimbabwe for several weeks, from the Zimbabwe Civic Action Support Group.

There is also a Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/sokwanele which is updated from time to time. Here are the entriues since it was launched in late May (read from the bottom). Harrowing.

Why not carry the Photo feed (if your readers can stomach it) or the Twitter feed on your blog. If you need to know how, drop a comment in the box, and I will do a “Howto” article. The elections in Zimbabwe are on June 27th, so it would be a good boost to scrutiny and awareness if a number of bloggers did this.

The BBC has published evidence that abuses, beatings, intimidation and undermining of the democratic process are being co-ordinated in Zimbabwe by the police and army (vua Paul Canning).

It is possible to keep track of what is happening on the ground via Net Feeds provided by various civil liberties bodies. This is an updated version of a Wardman Wire post “Scrutinise the Zimbabwe Elections using Twitter and Flickr: Sokwanele” from a few days ago.

The situation appears to be getting worse, so please do what you can to keep the spotlight on it.

Key Points

There are a number of organisations and resources listed here. This is a summary.

• Map of incidents: Sokwanele Map
• Most frequent updates: Sokwanele Blog, RSS Feed, Twitter. Women and Men of Zimbabwe.
• Photo feed: Sokwanele photo feed (on Wardman Wire blog front page).
• Video: Eyes on Zimbabwe
• Human Rights/Free Media: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), Zimbabwe Human NGO Rights Forum

I’ve added Election web feeds to the Magazine Front Page of the Wardman Wire.

• One is the feed for the Returning Officer’s Blog at Henley.
• The other is the Zimbabwe Election feed for Sokwanele.

There is a bit of a contrast.

I’ve posted about Zimbabwe several times in the last month. If the new “Post Series” plugin is still working you should be seeing a list of articles on the right.

This article identifies a number of ways you can support humanitarian relief and civil society by making donations from the UK.

This entry is part 6 of 17 in the series Zimbabwe Election - Mugabe MonitorOn Monday, Lovemore Matombo and Wellington Chibebe, respectively the President and General Secretary of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trades Unions (ZCTU), will stand trial to face charges of ’spreading falsehoods prejudicial to the state’. Those falsehoods are, in fact, criticisms they […]

This is a short advert for the Movement for Democratic change in the Zimbabwe Election.

It is about 30 seconds, but has been banned.

The Tea Chicken News is in from Harare.

Zimbabwe News Mugabe, Tsvangirai, MDC , Biti and SADC. With TC and Maud and a special financial report.