MEDIA REACTION MEP; HARARE

UNCLAS HARARE 001077 SIPDIS AF/PD FOR COX AND ROBERTSON, AF/S FOR KRAFT AND SCHLACHTER, AF/RA FOR DIPALMA, INR/R/MR, NSC FOR JENDAYI FRAZER E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: ZI PREL PHUM SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION MEP; HARARE ¶1. Under headline "Sharon's war crimes" the ruling ZANU PF weekly mouthpiece "The People's Voice" dedicated its May 11 editorial to calling on President George W. Bush to "condemn" Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon "for the massacre of Palestinian refugees at Jenin." Excerpts: ¶2. "The Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. Sharon, has a number of mass graves behind him. In 1982, he massacred many Palestinians in Lebanon. Some punishment should have been meted out to him then. Now, he has repeated the same story in Jenin. . . The War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague should order the public trial of Mr. Sharon for the massacre of Palestinian refugees at Jenin. . . The American President, George W. Bush, should condemn Sharon in very clear terms, and stop supporting his strategies of war and murdering of Palestinians like wild animals. . ." SULLIVAN