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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/zimbabwe-kangaroo-court-dismissed.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Zimbabwe ministers have dismissed plans by Robert Mugabe's party to bring British and American business chiefs in to denounce sanctions" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-zimbabwe-kangaroo-court-dismissed.jpg" alt="Zimbabwe ministers have dismissed plans by Robert Mugabe's party to bring British and American business chiefs in to denounce sanctions"/></a></p>
<p>A coalition government minister has dismissed a proposal by Robert Mugabe&#8217;s party to bring British and American business chiefs before Zimbabwe&#8217;s media to denounce their countries&#8217; sanctions.</p>
<p>The president&#8217;s ZANU-PF party had demanded that the chief executives publicly criticise Western economic restrictions imposed on Zimbabwe or lose control of their businesses.</p>
<p>But industry minister Welshman Ncube said threats of trial by media-style &#8220;kangaroo courts&#8221; further undermined efforts to stabilise already shaky investor confidence in Zimbabwe&#8217;s embattled economy.</p>
<p>Mr Ncube said it was illegal under the constitution to force individuals to make public their political opinions.</p>
<p>Mugabe and his party elite face numerous sanctions for alleged democratic and human rights abuses in a decade of political and economic turmoil.</p>
<p>Defence minister Emmerson Mnangagwa had called for Cold War era-style confessions from executives of some 400 British and US companies operating in the southern African nation.</p>
<p>He told ZANU-PF supporters at weekend rallies that those executives who &#8220;fail to take a public position&#8221; would be punished anyway and lose up to 90% of their shareholdings.</p>
<p>Money from seized shareholdings would be used to set up a new &#8220;anti-sanctions fund&#8221; to campaign aggressively against the measures and &#8220;all foreign companies operating in the country will be compelled to assist&#8221;, he said.</p>
<p>But Mr Ncube described Mr Mnangagwa&#8217;s remarks as &#8220;unfortunate&#8221; and said the coalition government would not allow foreign businessmen to be persecuted.</p>
<p>&#8220;If it was ZANU-PF alone in government then it will have happened, but it is an inclusive government and we will not agree,&#8221; he said.</p>
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