{"id":388,"date":"2008-06-28T08:56:04","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T22:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2008\/06\/28\/zimbabwe-student-christian-leader-calls-for-peace-monitors\/"},"modified":"2008-06-28T08:56:04","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T22:56:04","slug":"zimbabwe-student-christian-leader-calls-for-peace-monitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2008\/06\/28\/zimbabwe-student-christian-leader-calls-for-peace-monitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe student Christian leader calls for peace monitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"word-spacing: 0px; font: 10px Verdana; text-transform: none; color: #008000; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Stephen Brown and David Wanless<br \/>\n<font size=\"2\" color=\"#000000\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'MS sans serif'\"><strong>Geneva\/Cape Town (ENI).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>A leader of the Student Christian Movement of Zimbabwe has urged the international community to intervene in the southern African nation, following the decision of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to withdraw from the presidential runoff, citing escalating violence against his supporters.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need peace monitors that make sure we have a stable environment to stop this violence and madness that [President Robert] Mugabe is orchestrating,&#8221; Prosper Munatsi, general secretary of the SCMZ, said in a 23 June interview in Geneva.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Munatsi was speaking before reports emerged from the Zimbabewan capital that Tsvangirai had sought refuge in the Dutch embassy in Harare, citing fears about his safety.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The people of Zimbabwe have tried everything in their power democratically and peaceably in a non-violent way, and they have exhausted all the channels,&#8221; said Munatsi, who was in Geneva to brief the World Student Christian Federation, of which the SCMZ is a part.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"word-spacing: 0px; font: 10px Verdana; text-transform: none; color: #008000; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><font size=\"2\" color=\"#000000\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'MS sans serif'\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eni.ch\/featured\/article.php?id=2020\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Brown and David Wanless Geneva\/Cape Town (ENI).\u00c2\u00a0A leader of the Student Christian Movement of Zimbabwe has urged the international community to intervene in the southern African nation, following the decision of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to withdraw from the presidential runoff, citing escalating violence against his supporters.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;We need peace monitors that make sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}