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student leaders arrested
Zimbabwe
National Students Union (ZINASU)
May 17, 2007
Bindura
The wheels of injustice continue to turn as two more student leaders
from Bindura University of Science Education (BUSE) were picked
up this morning at the old site campus by unknown assailants. The
assailants whose vehicle registration number could not be ascertained
are believed to be members of the notorious Central Intelligence
Organisation (CIO) which is known for unleashing terror on its 'guests'.
The two who are Tinashe Madamombe, the BUSE Student Representative
Council (SRC) president and Moreblessing Mabhunu, the Secretary
General are the ones reported in The Vanguard Alert of the 16th
of May 2007 as living in fear after receiving life threats for having
attended the ZINASU General Council meeting over the weekend which
was graced by delegates from the South Africa Students Congress
(SASCO) and South Africa Union of Students (SAUS).
The General Council meeting came barely two days after a students
uprising at the University
of Zimbabwe (UZ) and the students are thus purported to have
connived with their colleagues to organise a demonstration at Bindura
University whereupon the South Africans are said to have supplied
petrol bombs for the said undertaking. The Vice President of the
BUSE Student Representative Council, Chiedza Gadzirayi and other
concerned students made inquiries with the University's Chief Security
Officer only identified as Muchena who at first professed ignorance
on the whereabouts of the two but later on after succumbing to the
pressure exerted by the students and then suggested that the two
had been taken to Bindura Central police station for questioning
in connection with their being part of the ZINASU proceedings.
ZINASU is working with the lawyers from the Zimbabwe
Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) to ascertain the whereabouts
of the two whom we fear could be subjected to inhuman treatment
at the hands of the dreaded CIO, especially in the wake of the obtaining
brutality in Zimbabwe on human rights activists, students included.
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fact
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