Calls for Positive Intervention in Zimbabwe

Calls are growing for the international community to do more about Zimbabwe, and now global human rights leaders including Desmond Tutu are engaging in a "relay fast" and other nonviolent acts to pressure neighboring countries -- particularly South Africa -- to support the Zimbabwean people's struggle for democracy and human rights.

clipped from www.commondreams.org Villagers collect food aid in Chirumanzu district, 250 kilometres from the Zimbabwean capital Harare. Southern African leaders opened fresh talks to end Zimbabwe's political crisis amid a new threat by President Robert Mugabe to form a government excluding his arch rival from power.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)