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ZANU
PF displaces 21 MDC supporters in Rusape
Zimbabwe
Peace Project
April
04, 2005
Despite assurances
by Zanu PF leaders and the police that peace would prevail even
after the just ended parliamentary elections, Zanu PF youths and
war veterans aligned to the ruling party have allegedly begun a
retribution campaign against MDC supporters in the small town of
Rusape in Makoni East.
Information
just received has it that three war veterans, a Soko, Musekiwa and
Fidelis led a group of Zanu PF supporters, some of whom were identified
as Fungai Murisa, Learnmore Chawatama, Goddy Smart, Mufoko Chidzambwa,
Zenzo Nyoni, George Ngirazi and Becky Munjoma, went on door-to-door
‘witch-hunts’ to weed out known MDC activists and forcibly evicted
them from their homes in Vengere high density suburb.
The said victims
are 24 year old TG (together with his wife and two children), FM
( wife and 3 kids), NI (his wife and child), RM (and her child),
TH (wife and child), LC (21) and two others whose names were not
immediately available.
Most of the
said victims participated as MDC election agents in the March 31st
general elections. The alleged reprisal campaign against the MDC
was said to have started as soon as a false announcement that the
Zanu PF candidate in the elections, Shadreck Chipanga had won against
the MDC’s Pishai Muchauraya. It later emerged that the constituency’s
resultsd had not been issued when the alleged evictions started.
The victims
claimed that one of the war veterans, Musekiwa was armed with a
pistol. The victims’ families, it is said have been living in open
spaces since the beginning of this month, as they have been barred
from returning to their legal places of residence. The victims claimed
they sough assistance from the police in Rusape who reportedly declined
to assist them. They (victims) are now seeking help in Mutare.
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