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NORTHERN REGION wife of four months taken away by his father –in-law NN, because the victim is an MDC activist. The perpetrator reportedly told the victim that he will never allow an MDC member to marry his daughter 20 June 2007 LM, leading some Zanu PF youths, allegedly stopped a farmers’ meeting that was being held at Nyavhada village, to discuss issues regarding the purchase of agricultural inputs. They then assaulted the Chairperson/convener, MP (40), who is an MDC member claiming that the meeting had not been sanctioned by the police. 21 June 2007 At Nemaire Business Centre, seven MDC supporters, led by one VC, allegedly engaged in a fierce fist fight against the same number of Zanu PF members led by GM, over political differences. Makoni West 4 June 2007 TR (37), an MDC member from Chakuma village, had his freedom of association and movement restricted by Zanu PF activists, led by BM, after he was ordered to confine his movements to his homestead alone, because they suspect the victim will recruit people into the MDC. The victim was further threatened with serious consequences, if he breaches the instruction. 13 June 2007 GS, a Zanu PF official, reportedly threatened to get five MDC members including BM (34) and PC (28), who were chatting at BM’s house, claiming that the victims were in breach of POSA, which requires that more than five people meeting for political purposes should seek police clearance to have such a gathering. He instructed the victims to disperse. 18 June 2007 CN (34), who works at Dorowa Minerals, was reportedly detained by three police details for more than two hours, because he could not produce his national identity document. The police details reportedly harassed him and asked him, if he was an MDC member. Mutare Central 3 June 2007 D, a Zanu PF activist and war veteran allegedly harassed and threatened to beat up, JM, whom he labelled an MDC member because he had observed the victim grinning and nodding happily in agreement as Father D, a Roman Catholic Priest, delivered a stinging sermon on corruption during a church service at St Paul’s Church. The perpetrator even threatened to burn the church, if such a sermon is delivered in church again. chikorokoza chapera’ was still in force. She was detained at Chisamba police station for five hours and then released without any docket being opened. The victim who has two minor children lost all her vegetables. 22 June 2007 Police at Mutare Central reportedly refused to give CIVNET facilitators, MS and PC, clearance to conduct a CIVNET workshop on community participation and development, on grounds that the proposed venue had been booked by another group. In this regard the right to receive and impart information was breached. 23 June 2007 AT, a vendor teamed up with other vendors and verbally abused CM (38), who is the wife of a war veteran, after she bragged that as a war veteran’s wife, she had lots of money because the government had increased their allowances. The perpetrators accused the victim and other war veterans of being responsible for destroying the country’s economy. 28 June 2007 Zanu PF Women’s league members, LM and PD, reportedly harassed and labelled fellow Zanu PF activist, OK, a traitor after the victim was seen actively participating and in mournful mood at the funeral of JM, who was an MDC activist and employee of the same party. 6 June 2007 5 June 2005 Mutare North At Mudyanadzo village, FM, a Zanu PF activist, reportedly denied DF (39), a mother of four to get winter wheat seeds and fertilizer under the government inputs programme, because the victim was an MDC polling agent during council elections held in October 2006. 6 June 2007 At Chitenderano, CT, of Zanu PF, allegedly assaulted SM (29), in an effort to prevent her from receiving some sewing material from S, whose husband is a Zanu PF Central Committee member, because she suspected the victim to be a member of the MDC. 10 June 2007 JM (28), of the MDC, was reportedly assaulted at Magaso Business Centre, by a Zanu PF activist, CK, as punishment for recruiting people into the MDC and also organizing MDC meetings in the area. © ZPP Programmes Dept. June 2007 CM, a Zanu PF activist, allegedly severely assaulted JM and TT (19), as punishment for attending an MDC meeting that was held in the area. 9 June 2007 Zanu PF activists, led by M, C and others, reportedly diverted building materials supplied by an unnamed NGO that deals in sustainable livelihoods meant to extend MP’s two roomed house in Nyausunzi, under a project the NGO is facilitating of empowering the disadvantaged and marginalized. Although the victim is also a Zanu PF member, she was accused of abandoning the party. 14 June 2007 Some unnamed police details allegedly arrested and confiscated BB’s vegetables that she was selling at her house in Chineta, claiming that “operation 1 June 2007 Four police details reportedly arrested and detained, LC, for wearing an NCA T/shirt and singing loudly “Zanu PF yaora”- (Zanu PF is rotten). The victim was reportedly assaulted using electric cords and booted feet and made to crawl in urine. He was released the following day without charge. 12 June 2007 NG, who claimed to be of the President’s Office (CIO), reportedly harassed JM, over the phone, accusing the victim of being unpatriotic and “selling the country to the whites” because, the victim who works for CCJP had accompanied some colleagues who are white to see and interview some victims of ‘Murambatsvina’ in Sakubva. 17 June 2007 26
NORTHERN REGION Some unnamed police details allegedly arrested, detained and assaulted, EM (34), the whole night at Mutare Central Police Station, accusing the victim of having organized and attended a SAVE Zimbabwe meeting at St Josephs on the 16 th of June. The police demanded to know the whereabouts of DM and JK who were part of the organizing committee of the SAVE Zimbabwe meeting. 24 June 2007 CM, the Acting Town Clerk in the Commission running the affairs of Mutare, allegedly victimized MS and other 29 Municipal police details, for reportedly failing to stop more than15000 MDC supporters from holding a rally at Chisamba grounds, as the crowd was just overwhelming. The perpetrator was then demoted by the Commission for the offence. 28 June 2007 For wearing a WOZA T/shirt, DF, an MDC member, was reportedly harassed by P, a member of the Zanu PF women’s league in the Zororo section of Sakubva. So incensed was the perpetrator that she threatened to unleash the Zanu PF youths on him, if ever she saw him wearing the T/shirt again. 5 June 2007 SM (26), a diamond panner, was allegedly severely beaten by police details, after he was caught in the diamond fields. The victim sustained serious injuries all over the body after the attack. 7 June 2007 Suspected Zanu PF youths, reportedly assaulted PT (31), of the MDC for uttering unflattering words about the state President. The victim allegedly blamed the President for the economic mess, the country is in. Mutare South 2 June 2007 DG, leading some ZRP details, reportedly stormed at an MDC meeting and harassed MC, AM, TR and others, whom they accused of holding an illegal meeting. The incident happened at Gwese School. 28 June 2007 © ZPP Programmes Dept. June 2007 IC, of Zanu PF, was reportedly given three days to vacate his rented accommodation in the OTS section of Sakubva, by his landlord GM, of the MDC, as punishment for playing a song called “gushungo havana mhosva”. The victim was told to go and get accommodation from his party Zanu PF. 13 June 2007 Zanu PF ward 12 Councillor, T and RM, reportedly threatened NK, a member of the School Development Committee and JM the deputy school head of Zarawa School, for sourcing some donors to help reconstruct the school, after it was destroyed by strong winds last year. The victims were accused of being MDC activists who “want to bring back whites into the country. 19 June 2007 Village head C, from Chidziya village, reportedly tore MDC posters and threatened TM, of the MDC, who was mounting the posters with eviction from the area for putting up the posters and questioning the headman’s actions 22 June 2007 Zanu PF activists, GK, IM and PN, were warned that their names will be struck off from the list of GMB maize beneficiaries, for asking and demanding part of their monies reportedly misappropriated by AG, also of Zanu PF. The victims were accused of disrespecting the actions of their senior party officials. Mutare West 2 June 2007 At Chikwariro village, DK and other Zanu PF activists, reportedly harassed and labelled, PN (53), a traitor because the victim defected to join the MDC. The victim was formerly the district Zanu PF organizing secretary. The perpetrators also demanded that the victim return the Zanu PF membership card and materials that he had in his possession or face the consequences. 5 June 2007 Zanu PF activists, led by AM, WM and CM, reportedly demanded that villagers, friends and relatives who were attending a funeral of the late son of an MDC activist, JTMM, boycott the funeral in an effort to force the victim to renounce his MDC membership and surrender MDC regalia in his possession. 10 June 2007 TM, a war veteran and Zanu PF activist, reportedly facilitated the arrest of CD (40), the MDC district chairperson by claiming that she had assaulted him. 15 June 2007 GM, of the MDC, was reportedly assaulted by a war veteran and Zanu PF activist, PK, in an effort to force him to renounce his MDC membership, especially the post of secretary that the victim holds in the party. 15 June 2007 MM (40), who is the MDC ward 4 Councillor and CD, also of the MDC, were allegedly arrested and detained by members of the Zanu PF youth militia, DM and M, for holding an illegal meeting. The victims had applied and were granted permission to hold the gathering. The meeting was subsequently stopped. The incident happened at Manjengwa village. 26 June 2007 At Mukotekwa village, the home of MZ (39), was reportedly stoned during the night by suspected Zanu PF youths, because the victim had hosted an MDC meeting at her home earlier in the day. Some window panes and roofing sheets were damaged during the commotion. Mutasa North 2 June 2007 At Chisuko village, war veteran BM and MN (youth militia), allegedly assaulted HN (46) and BK (27), using booted feet, open palm and whips as punishment for refusing to supply maize and other consumables to Zanu PF youth militia camped at Katiyo Estate. The victims who are vendors were labelled MDC activists. 3 June 2007 PM, a war veteran, who is also the Mutasa DCC Chairperson and Zanu PF ward Chairperson, ZM, allegedly harassed GC, a teacher at Nyatsanza School and warned him he and other teachers they risked expulsion from the service, for instigating teachers strike over salary. 27
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