ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />STORY: Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe on Saturday rallied his ZANU-PF party for an electoral victory in polls expected later this year, which would extend his 33-year grip on power.<br/> <br />Addressing a party rally to mark his birthday, Mugabe, who turned 89 last week, denied accusations by the rival Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai that ZANU-PF had launched a violent campaign around the southern African state to win the presidential and parliamentary polls.<br/> <br />Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since its independence from Britain in 1980, has become a pariah in the West, blamed for running a once-prosperous country into the ground, massive human rights abuses and violent and rigged elections to keep his hold on power.<br/> <br />The veteran ruler, in turn, accuses the West of plotting his ouster as punishment for his seizure, since 2000, of white-owned commercial farms to resettle land less blacks.<br/> <br />Mugab
