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Cry for democracy

AFP, Johannesburg
The 2003 World Cup was plunged into another desperate crisis on Monday when two of Zimbabwe's top cricketers donned black armbands to protest their country's regime and South Africa threatened to pull out of a tour of England in response to a possible Harare boycott by Nasser Hussain's team.
In a courageous move that reduced England's posturing over their February 13 fixture in the Zimbabwean capital to the sham it had rapidly become, Andy Flower and Henry Olonga issued a statement which passionately condemned the worsening conditions in their country.
Both wore black armbands in their opening clash against Namibia at the Harare Sports Club as they publicly denounced the regime of President Robert Mugabe.
Mugabe, a great cricket fan and the patron of the Zimbabwe Cricket Union, was not at the start of the match.
The match began barely a fifth full, with most of those spectators schoolchildren.
The statement read: "In doing so (wearing the black armbands) we are mourning the death of democracy in our beloved Zimbabwe.
"We are making a silent plea to those responsible to stop the abuse
of human rights in Zimbabwe. We pray that our small action may help to restore sanity and dignity to our nation.
"We cannot in good conscience take to the field and ignore the fact that millions of our compatriots are starving, unemployed and oppressed.
"We are aware that hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans may even die in the coming months through a combination of starvation, poverty and AIDS.
"We have heard a torrent of racist hate speech directed at minority groups."
"We are aware that many people have been unjustly imprisoned and tortured simply for expressing their opinions about what is happening in the country.
"We are aware that people have been murdered, raped, beaten and had their homes destroyed because of their beliefs and that many of those responsible have not been prosecuted."
Flower's and Olonga's stunning statement was released while 2,000 miles away, in the safety of Cape Town, England continued their dithering over whether or not to boycott their scheduled game in Harare on Thursday.