Zimbabwe tense over anti-Mugabe protests call

[Turborama]

Source: Reuters Africa

Tue Mar 1, 2011 11:32am GMT

By Cris Chinaka

HARARE (Reuters) - Internet campaigns calling for protests against the 31-year rule of President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday did not lead to any mass gatherings in Zimbabwe, where police have threatened to crush any "Egypt-style" protests.

The two campaigns, on Facebook and Twitter, were trying to start popular uprisings similar to ones that toppled the long-serving leaders of Tunisia and Egypt and are threatening Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi.

Although there was no unusual security deployment in Harare on Tuesday, private newspaper NewsDay reported that soldiers in armoured troop carriers had been "sighted" on Monday in traditionally restive townships in the capital.

The Facebook campaign calling for a million citizen march and a separate one on Twitter were aimed at bringing down Mugabe, 87, leader since independence from Britain in 1980.

Read more: http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE7200B320110301

[maddezmom]

1. watch this from Al Jazeera...people are skeptic of anything on the internet

http://english.aljazeera.net/video/asia/2011/03/20113151258342215.html

about 1:52

[joshcryer]

2. Thanks maddezmom. You're doing great with these news postings.

[Turborama]

3. Thanks for that

I caught them mentioning something briefly on the headlines earlier and hadn't seen this report.

I just did a check and there seems to be quite a bit of a buzz on Twitter about this: http://www.google.com/search?q=%23zimbabwe&num=100&hl=en&safe=off&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&prmd=ivnsulm&tbs=mbl:1&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=SwhtTbKkOIGKuAPXudC3BA&ved=0CHUQ5QU

Just found someone else on Google's "Realtime" I'm going to follow, too...

@barbiesnow True Blue in Bloody Red State
Wife,Mom,Grandmom,Activist Democrat & citizen of the world who does not suffer fools. Opinionated to a fault,polarizing? follow at your own risk Palin tweeters
http://twitter.com/#!/barbiesnow

[Uncle Joe]

5. I believe

those calls were too blatant but it's just a matter of time for the people of Zimbabwe.

[iandhr]

4. Mugabe's fan club...

on DU has been silent i noticed.