Posted by Britain has denied reports that Prime Minister Gordon Brown wrote to Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, and accused the Zimbabwe government’s spin doctors of faking documents as part of a desperate campaign to vilify the former colonial master.
The British embassy in Harare dismissed a letter printed in the state-run Herald daily, which was purportedly written by Brown to Tsvangirai after Zimbabwe’s March 29 elections.
The letter claimed that Britain was ready to assist Tsvangirai topple President Robert Mugabe’s government and thereafter help in the formation of a new MDC-led Zimbabwe regime.
The British embassy dismissed the alleged letter as “a forgery”, insisting that no such letter or wider correspondence existed.
“It reflects this regime’s desperation that ZANU PF and the state-controlled media have resorted to faking documents for crude propaganda purposes and not for the first time,” the embassy added.
Brown has led the international condemnation of Zimbabwe’s electoral authorities following a three-week delay in announcing results of a presidential poll in which Tsvangirai is believed to have beaten Mugabe.
Independent and ZANU PF tallies show that the opposition leader beat Mugabe in the elections but neither man won more than 50 percent of the votes to avoid a second round contest.
The Zimbabwe government has accused Britain and her allies of leading an international campaign to vilify President Mugabe in retaliation to the Zimbabwean leader’s decision to expropriate land from white farmers in 2000.
The West, in turn, blames Mugabe of human rights violations and running down what was once one of Africa’s model economies.
Source African Press Agency
