Harare - Relatives of three people killed and another who was allegedly assaulted in the run-up to Zimbabwe's elections said yesterday that they had filed a $400 million (£360 million) US lawsuit against President Robert Mugabe.
"A lawsuit accusing President Robert Mugabe of human rights abuses was filed in US District Court in Manhattan on Thursday, September 7th, on behalf of these victims of Mugabe's orchestrated political violence," said human rights activist, Mr Topper Whitehead.
"We have had to resort to this action because of the breakdown of law and order in our country and the inaction of the police in bringing known criminals and murderers to book," he told a news conference attended by the plaintiffs.