World | Morgan Tsvangirai Tsvangirai: Why I Dropped Out MDC leader explains refusal to contest Zimbabwe election By Jason Farago Posted Jun 25, 2008 5:58 AM CDT Copied Police lead detained Movement for Democratic Change supporters onto a bus after a raid on the opposition party headquarters in Harare, Monday June 23, 2008. (AP Photo) ZImbabwe's opposition leader tells the Guardian that he dropped out of Friday's run-off election because he "can no longer allow Zimbabwe's people to suffer this torture." Morgan Tsvangirai explains that ending his campaign was "not a political decision" but an attempt to stop the violence inflicted by Robert Mugabe's thugs. Tsvangirai predicts Mugabe will proclaim himself the duly re-elected leader of Zimbabwe this weekend and "further deny its people a space to breathe." But he warns that Mugabe's regime can only be changed from the outside, with international peacekeepers and a real election: "Intervention is a loaded concept in today's world," he admits, but the international community has no choice but to "become more than a moral participant." Read These Next "Admiral Piett" of the Star Wars universe died from COVID. Trump voter who supported mass deportations could be deported herself. Shooter opens fire on Texas Border Patrol What makes a person cool? These six traits. Report an error