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A leading Zimbabwean politician accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of treating opposition supporters like cockroaches that need to be eliminated, evoking language used during the genocide of the Tutsi minority in Rwanda in 1994. Tendai Biti, a senior member of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, laid the blame for the most brutal suppression of urban protests in Zimbabwe since independence from the UK in 1980 on Mnangagwa. The former spy chief, known as The Crocodile, replaced Robert Mugabe in late 2017 after a military coup.
A crackdown by the military last month on protests left at least 12 people dead. Most of them were shot, marking a departure from the approach taken during Mugabe’s rule, when complaints of beatings, abductions and torture were common, but the use of live ammunition for crowd control was rare. While the government has blamed the opposition for the demonstrations, which were called by trade unions, the MDC has denied responsibility.