Tsvangirai conceded on Friday the bruising response to the protest drive -- which began on Monday when riot police used tear gas and rifle butts to disperse protests around the country -- had made MDC supporters reluctant to demonstrate openly.
But he described the week-long drive as an overwhelming success and said the opposition would continue the protests.
Mugabe, now 79 and in power since independence from Britain in 1980, says he is being targeted by Western powers and their local proxies angry over his policy of seizing white-owned farms for redistribution to landless blacks.
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