In the poorer suburbs of Harare, which are strongly pro-MDC, militias patrol the streets, harassing anyone who fails to display ruling-party T-shirts or scarves.

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Dressed in party T-shirts, they marched to the nation's Electoral Commission office chanting, "We want peace, " according to the state-run Ghana News Agency.

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The opposition Puea Thai Party, broadly seen as supporting the red-shirts, accused the prime minister of using excessive force.

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He was starting to feel as unloved as he had the day of his ninth birthday, when only two of the eleven invited guests showed up to his party, a pair of twins who took off their shirts and came together at the arm to show where they had been separated.

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The MDC has claimed that the ruling party, ZANU-PF, has printed thousands of MDC T-shirts, so that its supporters can carry out acts of violence which can then be blamed on the opposition, giving the government an excuse for more arrests and more torture.

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The dancing rodents shock the stuff shirts in an 18th century opera house and show them how to party.

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Fini once described Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini as one of last century's "greatest statesmen, " while his party, the National Alliance, was forged from the remains of Mussolini's black shirts.

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The party's MPs arrived, their suits and slick hair incongruous amid the Che T-shirts and the stubble.

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