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# Economic Collapse and Political Repression in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe 

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Date and Time 

March 24, 2008 4 - 5:30 PM EDT 

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1st floor/Wintergarden 

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##### Featuring 

Featuring: **Walter H. Kansteiner**, Principal, Scowcroft Group Former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; **Carol Thompson**, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State; and **Richard Tren**, Director, Africa Fighting Malaria. Moderated by **Marian Tupy**, Cato Institute. 

On March 29 Zimbabweans will cast their votes in presidential and parliamentary elections that are likely to be rigged in favor of Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party. Mugabe and the ZANU-PF elite have presided over the collapse of living standards in Zimbabwe and the destruction of her economy. They are also responsible for massive human rights abuses that include a massacre of some 20,000 civilians in the Matabeleland in the 1980s. The panel will discuss the current economic and political situation in Zimbabwe, and possible post-election scenarios. The forum will coincide with the release of a new Cato study detailing Zimbabwe’s decline.

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