The Zimbabwe government will not sit back and watch the opposition perpetrating "terrorist attacks" on innocent citizens while authorities are also geared to stamp out domestic violence, which accounted for 60 percent of Zimbabwe's murder cases, President Robert Mugabe has said.

Speaking at a ceremony to commemorate the International Women's Day in Harare on Saturday, Mugabe said authorities would not tolerate lawlessness and violence must stop, The Sunday Mail reported.

Mugabe was quoted by the newspaper as saying: "We have given too much room to mischief makers and shameless stooges of the West. Let them and their masters know that we shall brook none of their lawless behavior."

Mugabe made the remarks in the wake of acts of violence, which the opposition MDC unleashed, in different centers across the country last week.

In Harare, suspected party supporters attacked and injured three policemen while two female officers at Marimba Police Station are in critical condition after a petrol bomb attack burnt the residence they were sleeping in.

The trail of violence also resulted in disturbances in Glen View on Tuesday morning when property was destroyed and vehicles were damaged.

Mugabe said there was no need for the violence, as it does not enhance the political interests of the opposition party.

If anything, he said, the practice only injures innocent people, and is aimed at illegally bringing about a change of government in the country.

Source: Xinhua