[JURIST] Parliamentary members of Zimbabwe's ruling African National Union-Patriotic Front [official website] party Tuesday defeated an opposition proposal that would have ended the government's controversial home demolition program [JURIST report]. "Operation Restore Order" has resulted in 30,000 arrests of illegal squatters and merchants, and left anywhere from 300,000 to 1 million people homeless. The government has defended the plan as a simple urban renewal cleanup of illegal structures, but it has been criticized by the G8 summit [JURIST report], hundreds of NGOs [JURIST report], and South African church leaders [AP report] for being a repressive move against the most vulnerable members of Zimbabwe's urban communities, mant of whom are politically opposed to President Robert Mugabe. Voice of America has more.