Family of exiled MDC official Elliot Pfebve abducted

By Lance Guma
14 May 2008

Elliot Pfebve, an MDC official who fled to the UK after the violent 2000 elections, is having to deal with the abduction of his parents by Zanu PF militia in Mt Darwin on Tuesday. Pfebve said he received a message from his brother Fireson Pfebve, who narrated how the Zanu PF mob stormed their Nyakatondo village around 8pm and tied up their 79-year old father and 76-year old mother using wire. Several other family members were frog-marched to a torture camp at Nyakatondo Primary School. His brother Ephraim ran away and his whereabouts are not known.

Pfebve is battling to get information on the condition of his elderly parents but says all he has heard is that 2 people at the camp were murdered. He says he does not believe they were his parents but says because the village has been deserted it’s difficult to get updates on the situation. Fireson Pfebve who escaped to Harare overnight has been relaying most of the information. Pfebve is not new to Zanu PF violence. In the run-up to the 2000 parliamentary election ruling party militants killed his brother Matthew, a retired policeman, after they mistook him for Elliot. Pfebve says his family is very active in the MDC structures and this explained the attack on their homestead.