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Armed
police raid MDC headquarters
Movement for Democratic Change
June 23, 2008
About 30 armed riot police today raided Harvest House, the MDC Headquarters
where hundreds of victims of political violence were seeking temporary
shelter.
The reasons
for the raid are still unclear, but some of the political violence
victims, most of them with serious injuries and in plaster, fled
when the armed police besieged the MDC offices.
The police arrested
everyone who had remained in the building, including seriously injured
political violence victims who could not run away, and drove them
away in a bus. They looted MDC office furniture and computers containing
party information.
About 1 000
people, fleeing raging State-sponsored violence across the country,
had sought temporary refuge at the MDC headquarters. Zanu PF has
unleashed a terror campaign against the people for overwhelmingly
voting for President Morgan Tsvangirai on the first round of polling
on 29 March.
President Morgan
Tsvangirai yesterday announced the MDC
would not take part the run-off election scheduled for 27 June
2008, describing it as a "charade."
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