Justice Delayed
“The thugs came in a twin cab vehicle that had no number plates with three people in front and 10 others sitting at the back around 12 midnight and demanded that the guards open the office doors. After the party officials refused to open the doors, the thugs fired gunshots and one of the MDC members, Edson Ngwerume was hit in the chest.They sprinkled petrol around the building and set it alight.”
In one of the “re-education” meetings, on May 5 in Chiweshe, Mashonaland Central, ZANU-PF officials and “war veterans” beat six men to death and tortured another 70 men and women, including a 76-year-old woman publicly thrashed in front of assembled villagers. A “war veteran” retired Major Cairo Mhandu organized and incited the beatings in Chiweshe.
“In Mutoko, Mashonaland East on the night of April 10, ZANU-PF supporters brutally beat before the entire village about 20 men suspected of voting for the MDC. A 45-year-old man told Metro that the ZANU-PF supporters used whips, chains, and iron bars to beat him and they broke his left leg below the knee. They repeatedly said that his “crime” was that he voted for the MDC during the elections.
“Mugabe’s campaign of violence has resulted in the killing of scores of opposition activists and other Zimbabweans and the beating and displacement of thousands of people, including many women and children” -UN Security Council resolution.
“Those who try to cause disunity among our people must watch out because
death will befall them” -Robert Mugabe
“We are at war again . . . If one of you is asked why you are killing, you say,
it is not us, it is the President.”-Robert Mugabe
“Those who do not understand must be beaten until they do understand.”-Didymus Mutasa
“We have to gear up for violence against the opposition and we have to silence them at all costs especially here in the home province of our President . We have the army,police on our side and let’s teach them lessons that this country was won through blood.” -Elliot Manyika
“A party that seeks to subjugate national interests to foreign powers & interests is a traitor and should be treated as such”.-Patrick Chinamasa
Uthango ludla amajodo (The fence is eating the crops)
-Ndebele Proverb
Posted by Special Investigations Unit
on October 25, 2008. Filed under Tondi's Blog on all things Zimbabwean.
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