Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe
addresses party supporters at his head office in Harare, in
this file photo taken Friday, March 30, 2007. University of
Massachusetts officials are reviewing plans to rescind an
honourary doctorate of law degree bestowed upon Mugabe in 1986
when he was hailed as a humane revolutionary who ended an
oppressive white rule to establish an independent Zimbabwe in
1979. But in the two decades since, Mugabe has been condemned
for attacks on dissidents and accused of running a corrupt
government that has ruined the economy. AP
Zimbabwe withers in Mugabe's mailed fist
The increasingly bloody political repression in
Zimbabwe is proof of the growing desperation of its ageing
authoritarian ruler - President Robert Mugabe.