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Index of articles on enforced disappearances in Zimbabwe
11
MDC activists still missing
Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC)
January 12,
2009
The whereabouts of 11
MDC supporters who were abducted by armed gunmen state security
agents across the country late last year remain unknown despite
frantic efforts by the party, relatives and lawyers to locate them.
The 11 were part of over
40 MDC activists including a two year old child who were abducted
by armed gunmen across the country since October 29 2008.
The other activists have
since been brought to court on trumped up charges of training in
banditry and bombing state buildings.
Those brought to court
have since told the courts that they were severely tortured while
in illegal custody in order for them to confess to these false allegations.
Other three
employees of the Zimbabwe
Peace Project (ZPP) including its director, Jestina Mukoko and
a freelance journalist are facing similar charges and are in remand
prison.
The missing 11 MDC activists
are; Llyod Tarumbwa, Terry Musona, Fanwell Tembo, Larry Gaka and
Gwenzi Kahiya who were abducted in Banket in Mashonaland West province
on 29 October 2008.
The others are; Charles
Muza, Ephraim Mabeka and Edmore Vangirayi who were abducted on 10
December 2008 in Gokwe, Midlands province, while Graham Matehwa
was abducted on 17 December 2008 in Makoni South, Manicaland province
and Peter Munyanyi in Gutu South in Masvingo province on 13 December
2008.
Efforts by the MDC, relatives
and the party's lawyers to locate their whereabouts have been fruitless
as the police are claiming that they are not in police custody.
The MDC is deeply
concerned by the abductions of its members and civic society activists,
which flies in the face of the Global Political Agreement
(GPA) signed by the three major political parties on 15 September
2008.
The MDC has since put
in place a team of experienced legal attorneys and at a political
level the party has sought the support and guidance of the SADC,
AU and United Nations, so that the rights and freedoms of the abducted
people are protected.
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