How a Peaceful Election Turned Violent

By artappraiser on Thu, 08/02/2018 - 1:35pm |

On Monday, Zimbabwe held an election that was intended to show stability. By Wednesday, protesters and tanks were in the streets. Our video journalists were there to talk to voters.

They don't need much more than 4 minutes to get the answer across. The reporter's translator laughs at how one guy in a rural village responds to the reporter's question about why he's writing down people's names, translator says "that's vote buying!"

URL:

https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/africa/100000006020673/how-a-peaceful-election-in-zimbabwe-turned-violent.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news