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 On March 11, 2007, Morgan Richard Tsvangarai, founder of MDC and prime minister of Zimbabwe, was on his way to a prayer meeting in the Harare township of Highfield when he was suddenly arrested. The prayer meeting was anti-Mugabe. (Robert Mugabe is Zimababwe's president.) The activists of the Move for Democratic Change believed that the views of Mugabe were corrupt. The next day he was beaten by the Special Forces of Zimbabwe unit based at the army's Craneborne Barracks.

Tsvangarai founded the Movement for Democratic Change, an opposing party to Mugabe, because he believed that Mugabe's political views were corrupt. The police attacked because Mugabe enforced a law prohibiting political rallies.  

​ Ian Smith, prime minister of Zimbabwe and governed in white rule, banned his opposing party Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) and put Mugabe and fellow nationalist Joshua Nkomo, leaders in ZAPU and ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union), in jail. In 1974, Smith let Mugabe out of jail along with many other nationalist leaders for a conference in Lusaka discussing unity in Lusaka and ceasefire; it was not carried out. Mugabe used this oppurtunity to escape; he and Nkomo continued to fight in the guerrilla war. Finally in 1979, Britain's Prime Mimister Margaret Thatcher summoned a Commonwealth summit in Lusaka. The summit, called the Lancaster House conference, established a new constitution and ceasefire was enforced. In 1980, Mugabe won a British-supervised election becoming the first balck prime minister and defense minister of an independent Zimbabwe. A couple years later, Mugabe was reelected over Nkomo and arguements between the two spewed. To settle their differences they decided on Mugabe as president and Nkomo as senior minister. Althoughy many blacks were relieved to be independent, the actions Mugabe completed and laws he enforced did not help out many blacks. The majority of blacks was still living in poverty. Mugabe's lavish wedding (while many citizens were still living in poor conditions) did nothing but add fuel to th fire. Since then, he has been voted as "the # 1 world's worst dictator"  ( []  ).

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