Zimbabwe's opposition has accused President Robert Mugabe of deploying loyal forces and liberation war veterans for a 'war on the people' to reverse the result of last weekend's election.
'Militants are being rehabilitated,' Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai told a press conference, adding that the central bank was printing money 'for the finance of violence' ahead of a presidential runoff vote.
The MDC has called on the United Nations and the African Union to intervene.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has supported the call, saying international observers must be allowed to monitor a re-run of the election if no one is declared an outright winner.
The MDC says it won the 29 March presidential election, though no official results have been released.
Official results do show the MDC won a parallel vote in which Mr Mugabe's ZANU-PF lost control of parliament for the first time, the biggest defeat of the veteran leader's 28-year rule.
ZANU-PF and independent projections show Mr Tsvangirai being forced into a presidential runoff after failing to win an absolute majority.
