Smuggled film said to show how Zimbabwe vote was rigged

Smuggled film said to show how Zimbabwe vote was rigged Have your say on What are you talking about? in our Forums A film secretly taken by a Zimbabwe prison guard and smuggled out of the country shows the extent of the rigging that took place for the June 27 presidential run-off vote, the Guardian said on Saturday. The film taken by Shepherd Yuda using a camera supplied by the newspaper shows prison staff being told by a war veteran how to fill in their ballot papers for Robert Mugabe. Mugabe, in power since independence from Britain in 1980, claimed a landslide victory in the vote in which there was no opponent and which outside observers said was neither free nor fair due to a campaign of violence and murder. Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, withdrew from the run-off saying a fair... [read full story]