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  • Operation Mavhoterapapi (how did you vote) - Post-election violence in Shamva and Mutoko
    May 08, 2008

    Samson, aged 3

    Samson (left) is 3 years old. Hewas beaten on Golden Star Farm, Shamva. His parents are ex farm workers who remained living on the farm after their white employer was evicted. They were beaten on 21st April by militia saying "Whites left you on this farm, you are MDC, you want whites to come back and look after you". Their houses and everything they owned was burned. The mother is at the hospital with Samson and her husband and other two children are somewhere in Shamva. She does not know where.

    3 year old Samson.

     

    Severe buttock wound exacerbated by withholding medical treatment after beating

    The photo on the left is of T.C. (38 years) from Kavasha village, Mutoko. On the 27th April he was beaten with big sticks on the buttocks by youth militia saying "stop supporting MDC". What you see is the result of extensive deep tissue bruising that has not received medical attention. He has a long road to recovery.

    Injury exacerbated by withholding of medical treatment.

     

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