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Tafara residents' alert
Harare Residents
Trust
March 08, 2011
The Harare Residents'
Trust notes with increasing concern the deployment of military officers
in communities and the continuous intimidation of residents in their
localities by suspected ZANU-PF activists. ZANU-PF is reported to
have held a political rally in Tafara at a place commonly identified
as Zvidhina area. Residents were forced to attend the meeting.
Issues discussed
at the meeting include the following:
- That the
residents should always attend ZANU-PF meetings whether they want
or not.
- The residents
are supposed to support ZANU-PF party whether they like it or
not.
- That the
residents are supposed to march to the Show Grounds on 02 March
2011 in protest against the sanctions. They went.
- There is
no one who is supposed to work on the day but to go and attend
the anti sanctions campaign.
- That all
commuter bus operators are supposed to ferry residents to the
show ground for the activity.
Besides this,
on 27 of February military vehicles were deployed in Tafara and
patrolled Bhobho area. The Tafara residents raised alarm telling
the HRT that this was instilling fear in them, and they genuinely
feared that they would be harassed and beaten up. Even now they
still believe they might be terrorized.
The HRT condemns
any political party that coerces people to rally behind their campaigns.
The Vision of HRT is to see a free and prosperous citizenry. Political
parties should desist from this culture and ensure that they earn
the support of the citizenry rather than force them to be their
followers. A willing mind is able to help build the party, but an
unwilling person can work from inside to destroy that party which
uses force to make them think as they want.
Visit the Harare
Residents' Trust fact
sheet
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