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Cleansing campaign in Mutasa district
Zimbabwe Human
Rights Association (ZimRights)
February 01, 2011
ZimRights was
alerted this morning that ZANU PF militia in Mutassa District, of
Manicaland Province have embarked on what they call "cleansing
campaign" in the area.
Raymond Munda
of Katiyo Tea Estates near the Mozambican border post called ZimRights
Manicaland offices requesting for the organisation to intervene.
He informed the office that he had been ordered to vacate his home
and flee to Mozambique or risk losing his life. He added that some
ZANU PF supporters came to his house, slaughtered his eight goats
and destroyed his maize field after which they banished him from
the area. They said that this was a way of cleansing the area of
everyone who is against ZANU PF ideologies. Munda becomes the third
to be forced out of the area.
Upon reporting
the case to the police, they detained him instead of arresting the
perpetrators. They pointed out that his experience will be a warning
and lesson to the rest of the community against serving anti-ZANU
PF interests.
This is only
one of the many cases of politically influenced human rights violations
taking place in the area. Mutasa District has over the years, become
notorious for human rights violations. In another report it has
been revealed that soldiers are presiding over ZANU PF meetings
to ensure that everyone participates while taking note of those
absent for further probing.
ZimRights condemns
the continued violations and intimidation not only in Manicaland,
but in the rest of the country. Political party leaders and their
loyalists must desist from using violence and force to get peoples
support as this defies the whole purpose of creating a democratic
Zimbabwe. The police must in every way be apolitical hence execute
justice without bias.
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Human Rights Association (ZimRights) fact
sheet
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