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NORTHERN REGION Manicaland Manicaland Totals 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 0 0 1 17 1 21 2 0 5 29 8 Murder Rape Kidnapping/Abduction Type of cases Assault Theft/Looting Discrimination MDP Torture Unlawful Detention Harassment/intimidation Displacement Jun-07 Buhera North 4 June 2007 At Mugweni village, GM, a Zanu PF activist, reportedly denied SN, to register for agricultural inputs under the Government inputs programme, after she failed to produce a Zanu PF membership card. The victim is a member of the MDC. 9 June 2007 NC, a war veteran and Zanu PF activist, reportedly harassed, VM, of no known political affiliation, after he used a route that passes by the perpetrator’s homestead, and failed to produce a Zanu PF membership card. It is reported that, the perpetrator demands Zanu PF membership cards from people who pass by his homestead. The incident happened at Gaza Township. 11 June 2007 At Mukondomi business centre, JM (59), was reportedly denied to receive some donated blankets, by Zanu PF officials led by IM, because the victim is an MDC member and also does not attend Zanu PF meetings. 11 June 2007 At Dorowa Clinic, KP, a nurse a nd MDC activist, reportedly refused to treat VP (32), because the victim is a Zanu PF member. He reportedly claimed that the victim was not fit for treatment since her party (Zanu PF) had caused the rot bedevilling the health sector. 14 June 2007 © ZPP Programmes Dept. June 2007 At Madziire village, PM, of the MDC, allegedly threatened to divorce her husband, LM (30), if he does not “reform” and renounce his Zanu PF membership. 16 June 2007 At Betera village, ND, a member of the Zanu PF Women’s League, allegedly barred PP, who is disabled and has two children, from registering as a Care Giver, because he does not attend Zanu PF meetings. The perpetrator told the victim that disability was not an excuse not to attend the meetings since the victim “walks” to attend church regularly. Buhera South 2 June 2007 An unidentified suspected Zanu PF member, allegedly vandalized, NV’s (46) vehicle at Birchenough Bridge and inscribed some words “pasi naTsvangirai and Mutambara”( a death wish to Tsvangirai and Mutambara). The victim was also threatened with physical assault, if he continued to patronize the area. 7 June 2007 GS, a Zanu PF activist, and tout based at Birchenough Bridge, allegedly pushed TJ (26), of the MDC out of a moving bus, claiming that ‘the bus was not permitted to carry MDC members”. The victim fell off and incurred facial injuries. 12 June 2007 HP (56), of the MDC, was allegedly summoned by Chief C (Zanu PF) and ordered to vacate Chamutsa village, after he reportedly publicly claimed that the incumbent state President should leave office, because life in the country has become unbearable. This was taken as a sure sign of unpatriotic behaviour by the perpetrator. 14 June 2007 At Zvavamwe business centre, Zanu PF youths and an unnamed police detail, reportedly harassed an unnamed man and removed him from a sugar queue, because they suspected him to be an MDC member. 15 June 2007 At Chamutsa village, Zanu PF activists, led by MN, the school development committee Chairperson, allegedly assaulted JP (56), of the MDC, after he confronted the perpetrators over the removal of his son from the BEAM programme. The victim’s son is in form one at Chamutsa Secondary School. 22 June 2007 An unnamed senior nurse, who is a Zanu PF activist, at Birchenough Bridge hospital, reportedly refused an ambulance service to NC (33), which was in labour to ferry her to Chipinge District hospital, because the victim is an MDC member. The victim was ferried to hospital by a well wisher. Chimanimani 1 June 2007 At Netsundwa village, 24 49 households consisting of known and suspected MDC members were reportedly denied to access
NORTHERN REGION GMB maize, by Zanu PF activists led by the ward 19 Councillor, DH. Some of the victims include WM, ED, and MT. 8 June 2007 Chief N and some Zanu PF members threatened to set fire on Tilbury Estate, block C, if Border Timbers went ahead and evicted them from 200 hectares of company land. They told AM, the Border Timbers Estate manager that nothing will happen to them since they are Zanu PF members. The perpetrators are occupying more than 200 hectares of ripe pine trees ready for harvesting facilitated, by RC and BT, on spurious grounds that the workshop had not been “properly cleared” by the police. Chipinge North 2 June 2007 ZRP details Constable J and Z, allegedly arrested and unlawfully detained GP (28), of the MDC. They locked him up for three days at Chipangayi police station, during which time they assaulted victim severely, demanding the victim to tell them information on MDC activities arrested and detained NR, for three days accusing the victim of having gone for military training, since the victim had last visited Chipinge more than three years ago, after being transferred to Mutare. The victim was reportedly verbally harassed and threatened with further detention, if he did not disclose the information that the perpetrator required. He was released after three days without charge. 21 June 2007 Zanu PF Women’s League members, M and M, reportedly summoned GM (30), of the MDC, to a kangaroo court at the Zanu PF offices in Chipinge, to answer charges of having organized and attended an MDC meeting at Gaza Hall earlier. She was warned that she will be evicted from her council rented accommodation, if she did not attend the hearing. 24 June 2007 At Nyunga village, Zanu PF activist, LM, reportedly threatened to set on fire the house belonging to RM (34), of the MDC as punishment, for attending an MDC Women’s Assembly meeting. Chipinge South 3 June 2007 CC, a headmaster at Chisavanye School and a Zanu PF activist, reportedly threatened MDC activists, MM (42) and IM (50), with eviction from Tapera village, if victims continued to participate in MDC activities. 8 June 2007 SN, a retired soldier and Zanu PF activist, allegedly assaulted, OS (30), of the MDC on suspicion that the victim wanted to contest the 2008 ward elections as an MDC candidate. The incident took place at the victim’s homestead at Chikepe village. 8 June 2007 Six families from Tapera village, including IM (50), EM (65), SK and others had their property including cattle looted, by Zanu PF activists led by HMM, NG and EM, as punishment for having ditched Zanu PF and joined MDC. It is estimated that property worth two hundred million dollars was lost during the looting spree. 10 June 2007 CJ (36), who was a general worker at Chibuwe High School, was reportedly suspended and later dismissed from work, by the SDA Chairperson, CK, who is also a Zanu PF official, because the victim is an MDC member. The perpetrator then recruited one of his relatives to fill the vacancy. He also reportedly bragged that no MDC members will be employed at the school during his reign. Makoni East 4 June 2007 For refusing to take orders from the headman, W and IM were reportedly labelled MDC members by Headman LM, during a community road rehabilitation project, after the victims refused to take orders from the headman. The incident took place at Ndingi Village. 8 June 2007 Zanu PF activists, JC, PK and other political detainees, allegedly severely assaulted fellow party activist and detainee, RD (53), for failing to pass on a message to other exdetainees regarding a planned meeting for ex political detainees in ward 23. The victim was also labelled an MDC member due to his actions. 19 June 2007 At Gambe Business Centre, Zanu PF activists, JM and AD, reportedly denied KM, to buy subsidized fertilizer and other agricultural inputs through AREX, because the victims are MDC members. 22 June 2007 T, a Zanu PF activist, reportedly overheard MB and PM, discussing a pending CIVNET workshop and demanded that the victims should furnish him with all details regarding the workshop. When the victims failed to give him the information, he threatened them with serious, but unspecified action. Makoni North 3 June 2007 At village 39, NN, of Zanu PF, allegedly assaulted a 65 year old lady, SP, because she had her fertilizer transported from Rusape by an unnamed MDC official. The victim was labelled an MDC activist. 10 June 2007 PN, of the MDC, was reportedly denied treatment at Dombo Clinic, by a nurse called M, a Zanu PF activist, after he was overheard denouncing the ruling party and the President. The victim was told to go and seek treatment at an MDC clinic. 12 June 2007 At village 39, Chombe, Zanu PF members H (52), N (39) and M (56), were reportedly harassed by fellow party activists, TM and LN. The victims were further denied to register for agricultural inputs as punishment for having attended the funeral of the late MDC ward secretary, PC. 15 June 2007 About 430 communal farmers, who are members of Operation Joseph from wards 10, 11 and 20 who had organized themselves into groups to barter their maize for agricultural inputs with the GMB, were reportedly turned away, by Rusape GMB staff, because the groups did not have known Zanu PF members as leaders. Some of the group leaders did not have Zanu PF membership cards as well, so they were told that only ruling party members can utilize the barter facility. 19 June 2007 At Chitungwiza village, PM (27), had his © ZPP Programmes Dept. June 2007 25
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