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 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - A wave of state orchestrated violence continues unabated in Zimbabwe, despite President Robert Mugabe's admission that his security forces were overreacting, the U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe said Monday.
U.S. Ambassador Christopher Dell said that presidents from southern African countries meeting privately last week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, told Mugabe his police had been excessive in beating and torturing government opponents.
The summit called Thursday by the Southern African Development Community appointed South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki to mediate a solution to Zimbabwe's political and economic crisis, Dell said in a telephone interview from Zimbabwe's capital, Harare,
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