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ZANU
PF in retribution campaign in Bindura
Zimbabwe
Peace Project
April
02, 2005
Barely a day
after winning the March 2005 general elections in a landslide victory,
the ruling Zanu PF has reportedly launched a retribution campaign
against known MDC supporters, or those suspected to have voted for
the opposition party.
Investigations
by the ZPP can reveal that in Bindura, where Elliot Manyika of Zanu
PF won the mandate to represent the constituency in Parliament,
scores of people either known to support the MDC or such civic groups
like the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) have been threatened
with an array of brutal methods of elimination including death,
assault and expulsion.
In one interesting
case, GJ, an NCA activist living in Chipadze is said to be living
in fear after she refused to be forced to vote for the ruling party.
ZPP caught up with her and in an interview yesterday, she revealed
that the local Zanu PF leadership (District Committee) in the constituency
led by a man only identified as Mashumba and Jonah Ngwenya ‘promised’
to descend on her after the announcement of election results.
Manyika won
against Joel Mugariri of the MDC. GJ (39), a mother of 3 (one who
is physically challenged), who operates a tuck-shop alleged that
she has been ordered to leave Bindura for her outstanding support
of the MDC’s parliamentary campaigns. It is also understood that
OM, OK and NC from Chipadze high density suburb are also under serious
threats of evictions from Zanu PF.
A police report,
which was made immediately after Jona Ngwenya and several Zanu PF
supporters allegedly besieged GJ’s home chanting slogans denouncing
and threatening her, prompted the police to intervene.
The case is
understood to have been reported to the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human
Rights.
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