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Post-election
death toll up to 43: MDC
Agence France-Presse
(AFP)
May 19, 2008
http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=769254
Zimbabwe's
opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party said today
that political violence after the March 29 elections has now claimed
the lives of at least 43 of its activists.
In a statement posted
on its website the MDC said among the latest victims were three
members whose bodies were discovered in Goromonzi village, around
30 kilometres east of the capital Harare.
The three named activists
were abducted by unknown kidnappers on Tuesday last week and their
bodies were found with "gunshot and knife wounds", it
said. Police have not commented on the deaths.
The MDC accuses President
Robert Mugabe's loyalists of embarking on a retribution campaign
in a bid to secure a win for the veteran leader in the presidential
run-off scheduled for June 27.
The ruling "Zanu-PF
(Zimbabwe African National Union - Popular Front) and state security
agents have been on an orgy of violence since the...party and its
president Robert Mugabe lost in the 29 March 2008 elections to the
MDC," the party said.
The MDC said post-election
violence has seen over 5,000 families displaced from their homes
across the country with hundreds of others injured in attacks.
"The move by Zanu-PF
is meant to displace at least 500,000 eligible voters who are perceived
to be MDC supporters ahead of the 27 June 2008 presidential run
off," it claimed.
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai
won the first round but without enough ballots to avoid a run-off.
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