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Mugabe tells defence chiefs "we are prepared to fight for our land"

(14 Jun 2008) SHOTLIST 1. Defence chiefs waiting for Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to arrive 2. Mugabe stepping out of car 3. Close up of Mugabe 4. Soldiers carrying coffin 5. Mugabe walking behind coffin 6. Various of soldiers with guns going through drill 7. Soldier standing next to Mugabe 8. Wide of Mugabe at podium 9. Wide of venue 10. Man with flag in his hat 11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's President: "We are prepared to fight for our country, to go to war for it." 12. Man holding up picture of deceased General 13. Military officers STORYLINE: Zimbabwe's 84 year old president Robert Mugabe said on Saturday he was prepared to "go to war" for the country he has ruled since independence from Britain in 1980. "We are prepared to fight for our country, to go to war for it," Mugabe told mourners at the funeral of a retired Zimbabwe army general, Amoth Chingombe at Heroes Acre in the capital Harare. Mugabe faces a presidential runoff in less than two weeks against Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. In recent weeks there have been brutal attacks on opposition supporters, arrests of other key opposition figures and repeated interruptions of Tsvangirai's attempts to campaign. Mugabe, addressing members of his ZANU-PF party's youth wing on Friday, said veterans of the country's war against white rule would fight again if the opposition wins June 27. He said veterans had approached him just after the March 29 first round of elections, threatening to go back to the bush to fight if Tsvangirai was allowed to win. Also in Harare on Saturday, police brought the MDC's secretary general before the High Court, the first time he has been seen in public since plainclothes officers hustled him off a plane as he arrived back in the country. Police have said Tendai Biti will be charged with treason, which can carry the death penalty. They had refused to say where he was being held or allow his lawyers to see him since his arrest on Thursday, and responded only grudgingly to a High Court judge's order to produce him. Mugabe was lauded early in his rule for campaigning for racial reconciliation and building the economy. But in recent years, he has been accused of ruining the economy and holding onto power through fraud and intimidation. The economic slide of what was once the region's breadbasket has been blamed on the collapse of the key agriculture sector after often-violent seizures of farmland from whites. Mugabe claimed he ordered the seizures, begun in 2002, to benefit poor blacks. But many of the farms went instead to his loyalists. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...