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Zanu PF perpetrated violence on cards
Movement
for Democratic Change
May
23, 2013
The Zanu-PF
Joint Organising Committee is reported to have taken Augustine Chihuri
to task for sanctioning the well attended MDC rally held at the
Zimbabwe grounds on Sunday, 19 May 2013.
The rally attended
by over 30 000 party supporters was addressed by President Tsvangirai
who was accompanied by the MDC top leadership.
However, the
MDC is well aware and has learnt that a high powered Zanu-PF meeting
was held on Tuesday, 21 May 2013, where General Constantine Chiwenga
quizzed the police commissioner general over his sanctioning of
the MDC rally which was well attended.
According to
sources who attended the meeting, Chihuri’s response was that
he wanted to test the MDC’s popularity. The service chiefs
were shocked by the overwhelming attendance at the rally despite
heavy police presence around the venue.
The service
chiefs were further incensed by the fact that the MDC, as a Party
of Excellence, had before the Zimbabwe Grounds Star rally, managed
to hold a colourful national policy conference in Milton Park, Harare
where it launched its policies on how it will govern the country
after winning the next elections.
This development
by the service chiefs, signals the intention of the service chiefs
and Zanu-PF to unleash violence on the people ahead of the coming
elections scheduled for later this year.
As a party,
the MDC notes that even before the announcement of the dates for
elections there are already indications of possible violence in
the upcoming election as Zanu-PF is sensing heavy defeat at the
hands of the MDC in the local government, parliamentary and presidential
elections.
Despite Zanu-PF
preaching a message of peace
in the upcoming elections, the MDC notes that senior officials
in Zanu-PF are already strategising on how they will create alarm
and despondency in the upcoming elections and consequently make
the environment conducive for them to rig the upcoming elections.
The MDC strongly
condemns the plots by senior Zanu-PF officials to use the military
to instigate violence on MDC supporters before, during and after
the harmonised elections.
The behaviour
of the securocrats puts paid the MDC’s call for security sector
reforms before holding of elections. The MDC will not be deterred
from its agenda of bringing real transformation to Zimbabwe and
would like to warn the service chiefs from engaging in acts aimed
at creating mayhem and anarchy in Zimbabwe.
MDC remains
vigilant and would seriously follow any development meant to destabilise
the peaceful existence of the Zimbabweans with keen interest.
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