Chitungwiza,
3 March 2002: TB was
abducted on his way home from church by Zanu-PF youths. He was taken
to their base and stripped. His personal goods and ID were taken.
TB was then blindfolded and tortured with the use of falanga and
beatings with blunt instruments and kicked. He was driven around
during the night and threatened with shooting and electrical torture.
One of the youths urinated on his face before he was abandoned in
bushes in Seke. He sustained a swollen eye, abrasions to back, scratches
and swelling to face. He is now suffering from a headache.
Seke,
6 March 2002: CM (male,
aged 37) was accused on 06/03 by six ‘war vets’ of spraying the
walls of schools, churches and other places with MDC messages. He
was confronted at his house at 11am and was then cut on the right
forearm five times with a knife.
Goromonzi, 7 March 2002:
AT was assaulted by Zanu-PF members for being MDC and failing to
show them some of the MDC supporters around the area. He was taken
to their base at Goromonzi turn off and assaulted using sticks,
hose pipes, hands and booted feet. One of the assailants burnt him
on the eyelid with a cigarette.
Budiriro,
24 March 2002:JM
was at home after her evening meal. She sent a child to close the
gate. At the gate the child was ordered by riot police to go back
into the house. After a few minutes she heard people crying from
the next room and when she went to investigate she found the whole
passage way full of riot police. She was ordered by one officer
to go back into her room. After a while another officer called for
her to come out. The riot police started to assault her with open
hands, booted feet and baton sticks, there were about eight of them.
Outside they started taking turns to beat her and another girl.
The assault only stopped after one of the officers ordered the eight
to stop. JM doesn’t know why they were assaulted. The next day she
went to a private doctor who refused to treat her fearing that she
would die of internal injuries. He wrote a letter and referred her
to the police. The police in Glen View just wrote another letter
but did nothing about the assault.
Guruve North, 15 March 2002:
Fanuel White was a polling agent at Nyambudziya Polling Station.
Following the elections he tried to go back to work at ARDA, where
he was employed. There he was allegedly confronted by two guards,
including William Nhete, who handcuffed him who took him to a base
at Chibvongodze Village where they handed him to a group of militia.
Amongst the militia he identified one Chasakara. His hands were
handcuffed and his legs tied up in barbed wire. Chakasara the allegedly
led the assault in which he was beaten with clubs on his buttocks
and also under his feet. He was later released having been beaten
from about 7am to 9am. White was evacuated to Harare and admitted
to hospital after threats on his life. He died of injuries sustained
in this attack on died 29 March 2002.
