{"id":195671,"date":"2008-06-23T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/23\/tsvangirai-takes-refuge-in-dutch-embassy-but-here-comes-mbeki-to-the-rescue\/"},"modified":"2008-06-23T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T22:24:00","slug":"tsvangirai-takes-refuge-in-dutch-embassy-but-here-comes-mbeki-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/23\/tsvangirai-takes-refuge-in-dutch-embassy-but-here-comes-mbeki-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsvangirai Takes Refuge in Dutch Embassy, but Here Comes Mbeki to the Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While he has not formally requested asylym, it&#8217;s clear that <a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/reuters\/2008\/06\/23\/europe\/OUKWD-UK-ZIMBABWE-ELECTION-EMBASSY.php\">Tsvangirai believes that his life is in danger<\/a>, which is why he&#8217;s sleeping there.<\/p>\n<p>We also have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/africa\/article4200177.ece\">Thabo Mbeki traveling to Zimbabwe<\/a>, to make a &#8220;final plea&#8221; to Mugabe about doing the right  thing.  We can be sure that Mbeki&#8217;s effort will be ineffectual, and will be full of enabling language.  That is what he&#8217;s done for the past 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While he has not formally requested asylym, it&#8217;s clear that Tsvangirai believes that his life is in danger, which is why he&#8217;s sleeping there. We also have Thabo Mbeki traveling to Zimbabwe, to make a &#8220;final plea&#8221; to Mugabe about doing the right thing. We can be sure that Mbeki&#8217;s effort will be ineffectual, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,971,1032,1000,964],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-civil-rights","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-elections","category-foreign-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}