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Opposition okays self-defence

    NAIROBI

    Zimbabwe's main opposition leader on Thursday said that a breakdown of law and order could justify white farmers defending themselves.

    "If the police are not able to help ... then certainly the community has a right to self-defence. I think everyone must now agree that the government has abdicated its responsibility of protecting the citizens," Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, said in a Reuters
    interview.

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