HARARE (Reuters) - A BBC correspondent ordered by the government to leave Zimbabwe within 24 hours took refuge at the British High Commission in Harare early on Sunday after a gang tried to break into his flat.
Joseph Winter said the men climbed a wall around his garden and began banging on doors and shouting for him to open up as a car waited outside with its engine running.
Winter phoned his lawyer, British officials and fellow journalists in Harare. A Reuters reporter and other journalists arrived at the scene and saw a half-dozen men in civilian clothes flee from Winter's garden, climb into a Mazda car and drive away.
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One door closed is one door opened
One more memory fades away
Such grand dreams we all have chosen
We lost our innocence along the way
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Joseph Winter said the men climbed a wall around his garden and began banging on doors and shouting for him to open up as a car waited outside with its engine running.
Winter phoned his lawyer, British officials and fellow journalists in Harare. A Reuters reporter and other journalists arrived at the scene and saw a half-dozen men in civilian clothes flee from Winter's garden, climb into a Mazda car and drive away.
Want to learn more? http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=world&Repository=WORLD_REP&RepositoryStoryID=%2Fnews%2FIDS%2FWorld%2FOUKWD-ZIMBABWE-JOURNALISTS_TXT.XML
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One door closed is one door opened
One more memory fades away
Such grand dreams we all have chosen
We lost our innocence along the way
- Rose Bygrave, "Innocence"
PsychoticIckyThing.Com