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<p>Robert Mugabe has threatened to seize British businesses in retaliation for Western economic sanctions targeting him and his supporters over alleged human rights abuses in Zimbabwe.</p>
<p>Mugabe made special mention on Wednesday of UK-controlled banks and firms, saying British interests controlled 400 businesses in the former British colony.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is time now to take action and to start looking at these companies we must take over,&#8221; Mugabe told a rally in Harare at the start of a campaign to gather two million signatures for a national petition to take over the businesses.</p>
<p>He accused Barclays and the Standard Chartered banks of taking money out of Zimbabwe&#8217;s economy and using it to support a British banking freeze against Zimbabwean leaders.</p>
<p>He said British firms and European and American interests also took out profits on mining and other ventures. &#8220;We say no to that,&#8221; Mugabe said. He also demanded executives of foreign-owned companies condemn the sanctions placed by their governments.</p>
<p>Trucks and buses carrying Mugabe supporters arrived earlier at a field on the edge of the city centre. The supporters sang slogans and raised Mugabe&#8217;s trademark clenched-fist salute. The former opposition party of prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai, in a shaky coalition with Mugabe, boycotted the gathering.</p>
<p>Mr Tsvangirai&#8217;s Movement for Democratic Change said the measures against Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party resulted from its record of violence, intimidation and vote-rigging.</p>
<p>Its statement said Mr Tsvangirai distanced himself from the &#8220;unpopular and bloodthirsty&#8221; party.</p>
<p>Mugabe insists Western sanctions have destroyed Zimbabwe&#8217;s economy, but critics and economists blame his violent land distribution programme for crippling the country&#8217;s agriculture industry since 2000.</p>
<p>The sanctions include visa bans and asset freezes on Mugabe and his party leaders. Mugabe has been in power since Zimbabwe&#8217;s independence in 1980.</p>
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