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(Mutare, Zimbabwe) Thousands of people, including hundreds of school children, crammed into a stadium Saturday in the eastern city of Mutare to celebrate the birthday of Zimbabwe's strongman Robert Mugabe and listen to a rambling denunciation of the West and gays in particular.
The 82 year old Mugabe accused Western nations of preparing to declare war on the country.
"Bear in mind that the monster of imperialism is continuously and dangerously lurking in the bush awaiting a more favorable opportunity to devour our national sovereignty," Mugabe told the crowd.
He then launched into a tirade against gays, a familiar strain for him.
Speaking in Shona, one of Zimbabwe's two major tongues, Mugabe denounced homosexuality.
"Leave whites to do that," he declared.
Mugabe told the cheering throng that same-sex marriage is a threat to mankind and condemned churches that bless gay unions.
He said his government would jail and clergy who performed a blessing ceremony for gay couples in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe is heavily Anglican and the speech was applauded by Anglican priests in the crowd.
Mugabe routinely refers to gays as dogs and has on two occasions ordered police to round up and imprison gays.
His regime is one of the bloodiest in Africa, and in 2001 the Commonwealth suspended Zimbabwe over questions of fraud concerning his election.
British LGBT civil rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has on several occasions attempted citizen’s arrests of Mugabe.
In 1999, he and other activists from the gay activist group OutRage! ambushed Mugabe’s motorcade and attempted to seize him in a London street. In 2001, he swooped on the President as he was leaving the Hilton Hotel in Brussels. Tachell was beaten unconscious by Mugabe’s bodyguards.
In 2004 a British court refused to issue an arrest warrant for the Zimbabwean leader.
Tatchell presented a 52 page brief that outlined a regime of brutality, homophobia, and repression of civil rights. It detailed accounts of political opponents being rounded up and imprisoned and quoted extensively from reports made by more than a half dozen international human rights groups and contains interviews with victims of the regime.
The judge ruled that Mugabe is immune from foreign arrest since he is a head of state.
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