• 14 March: Two female officers were seriously injured in a fire-bomb attack on a police station in Harare
  Harare
  Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...
  
  ; the government blamed the opposition Movement for Democratic Change
  Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai
  The Movement for Democratic Change Zimbabwe is a political party and the largest party in the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe. It is the main formation formed from the split of the original Movement for Democratic Change in 2005.-Foundation:...
  
   (MDC). Similar attacks and other forms of protest took place in other parts of the country. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6453143.stm
• 15 March: President Robert Mugabe
  Robert Mugabe
  Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe. As one of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power in 1980...
  
   made a statement about Western criticism of his regime: "When they criticise the government when it tries to prevent violence and punish perpetrators of that violence we take the position that they can go hang."http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6454827.stm
• 17 March: Four ranking members of the opposition were refused permission to leave the country, some of them seeking treatment for injuries inflcited in police custody. MP
  House of Assembly of Zimbabwe
  The House of Assembly of Zimbabwe is the lower chamber of the country's bicameral Parliament. It was the unicameral legislative body from 1989 until late November 2005, when the Senate was re-introduced....
  
   Nelson Chamisa
  Nelson Chamisa
  Nelson Chamisa is a Zimbabwean politician and member of the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe for Kuwadzana, Harare. His charismatic speeches and eloquence saw him rise to become the Secretary for Information and Publicity for the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change , and former national...
  
   said he was beaten at Harare Airport; doctors later reported that he had received a fractured skull. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6463653.stm
• 21 March: Levy Mwanawasa
  Levy Mwanawasa
  Levy Patrick Mwanawasa was the third President of Zambia. He ruled the country from January 2002 until his death in August 2008. He is credited for having initiated a campaign to rid the country of corruption...
  
  , president of neighbouring Zambia
  Zambia
  Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....
  
  , likened the situation in Zimbabwe "to a sinking Titanic whose passengers are jumping out in a bid to save their lives".http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6475851.stm
• 21 March: The United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Christopher Dell
  Christopher Dell
  Christopher William Dell is a career United States Foreign Service officer who currently serves as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Kosovo, after having been posted to Angola and Zimbabwe.-Education:...
  
  , said that the country's people had "turned a corner" and were "losing their fear".http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6473579.stm
• 22 March: The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo, Pius Ncube
  Pius Ncube
  His Grace the Most Reverend Dr. Pius Alick Mvundla Ncube served as the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, until he resigned on September 11, 2007...
  
  , called for mass public protests to bring pressure to bear on President Robert Mugabe
  Robert Mugabe
  Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe. As one of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power in 1980...
  
   to resign.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6482723.stm
• 23 March: The Prime Minister
  Prime Minister of Australia
  The Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia is the highest minister of the Crown, leader of the Cabinet and Head of Her Majesty's Australian Government, holding office on commission from the Governor-General of Australia. The office of Prime Minister is, in practice, the most powerful...
  
   of Australia
  Australia
  Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
  
   John Howard
  John Howard
  John Winston Howard AC, SSI, was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He was the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies....
  
   called for the world to work towards ousting Mugabe.http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0700world/tm_headline=howard-calls-on-africa-to-oust-mugabe&method=full&objectid=18797192&siteid=50082-name_page.html
• 28 March: Morgan Tsvangirai
  Morgan Tsvangirai
  Morgan Richard Tsvangirai is the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. He is the President of the Movement for Democratic Change - Tsvangirai and a key figure in the opposition to President Robert Mugabe. Tsvangirai was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe on 11 February 2009...
  
   was arrested in a raid on his headquarters.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6503061.stm
• 29 March: The Southern African Development Community
  Southern African Development Community
  The Southern African Development Community is an inter-governmental organization headquartered in Gaborone, Botswana. Its goal is to further socio-economic cooperation and integration as well as political and security cooperation among 15 southern African states...
  
   held a summit in Tanzania
  Tanzania
  The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
  
  , with the Zimbabwe crisis high on its agenda.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6505391.stm
• 8 April: Zimbabwe's Roman Catholic bishop
  Bishop
  A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
  
  s call on the President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe
  Robert Mugabe
  Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe. As one of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power in 1980...
  
   to stand down or face "open revolt" in a message posted on church bulletin boards across the country.^{http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/04/08/zimbabwe.easter.ap/index.html?eref=rss_world}

Literature

• Davoodi, Schoresch & Sow, Adama: Democracy and Peace in Zimbabwe in: EPU
  European University Center for Peace Studies
  European Peace University is a private university in Stadtschlaining, Austria.The institution was founded in 1988 as European University Center for Peace Studies by Gerald Mader in his capacity as president of the ASPR, with the support of European UNESCO commissions, and is affiliated to the...
  
  Research Papers: Issue 12/08, Stadtschlaining 2008

External links

• Q&A: Zimbabwe meltdown (BBC News)