Tonight my thoughts take me to faraway Zimbabwe, where media reports indicate that riot police are out in full force. The eerie five-day silence from the Robert Mugabe-led government ended today with a sudden crackdown as police began raiding Harare hotels.
Police raided the Meikles Hotel, hunting down members of the Movement for Democratic Change said to have won Saturday’s national elections. Riot police who surrounded the York Lodge Hotel, housing foreign journalists, took several of them away and imprisoned them.