Editing History of Zimbabwe (section)

==2002==
Presidential elections were held in March 2002. In the months leading up to the poll, ZANU-PF, with the support of the army, security services, and especially the so-called 'war veterans',  – very few of whom actually fought in the [[Second Chimurenga]] against the Smith regime in the 1970s – set about wholesale intimidation and suppression of the MDC-led opposition{{Citation needed|date=June 2008}}. Despite strong international criticism, these measures, together with organised subversion of the electoral process, ensured a Mugabe victory{{Citation needed|date=June 2008}} . The government's behaviour drew strong criticism from the EU and the US, which imposed limited sanctions against the leading members of the Mugabe regime. Since the 2002 election, Zimbabwe has suffered further economic difficulty and growing political chaos.