Fredrick Shaba, a local official for the Zimbabwean opposition party Movement for Democratic Change, sits in a hospital after being treated for stab wounds June 20, 2008 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Shaba said that he was attacked the previous night by about a dozen members of President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party. Human rights organizations and independent observers have charged the Mugabe regime of mass voter intimidation and violence against opposition members ahead of the upcoming presidential runoff election between Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Voters are scheduled to go to the polls on June 27. By Getty Images.
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