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British and US diplomats attacked in Zimbabwe London
Telegraph British and American diplomats have been attacked
in Zimbabwe while trying to investigate political violence, the US embassy
has said. The American ambassador to Zimbabwe, James McGee, was quoted by Reuters as saying that their detention was part of a plot to intimidate foreign diplomats that was coming “directly from the top” of President Robert Mugabe’s regime. He said two US vehicles and a vehicle from the British High Commission were in the town of Bindura, about 28 miles north of the capital, Harare, when they were stopped by a group of police, soldiers and war veterans.
(Article continues below) Mr McGee - who was not in the convoy - told CNN: "Police put up a roadblock, stopped the vehicles, slashed the tyres, reached in and grabbed telephones from my personnel, and the war veterans threatened to burn the vehicles with my people inside unless they got out and accompanied police to a station nearby. The Foreign Office said it was investigating the reports. No details of injuries or who was involved in the incident were released. Zimbabwe police detained US and British embassy staff at a roadblock on Thursday after they visited victims of political violence, a US embassy spokesman said. "They are still holding five Americans, two Zimbabwean staff and four Britons, almost five hours after the incident. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs promised to send staff to get our people out, but they are still being held at the roadblock," spokesman Mark Weinburg said.
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