Time for accountability 11 “repentant” MDC youths to join in the beatings. Those who refused were beaten and had their homes burned down. On 4 June 2008, a meeting was held at Tsungayi business centre. The meeting was addressed by soldiers, including the army major, who were armed with weapons including AK47 rifles. A number of MDC supporters were ordered to “repent” and renounce the MDC party. They were taken through a “baptism” which included a public flogging and were ordered to pay fines for having voted for the MDC. Fines were paid in the form of goats, which were taken by the army major. Around the same time nine shops at Tsungayi business centre were burned down by “war veterans”, including one owned by MDC-Tsvangirai’s senatorial candidate, Liah Makoni. Some of the victims attempted to report the crimes at Nembudziya police station but police refused to record the cases. ZANU-PF youths under police instruction kill relative of MDC official Kingswell Muteta, a police officer, was fatally beaten by ZANU-PF supporters in Mudzi district on 17 July 2008 after visiting the family of his brother-in-law, an MDC ward chairperson reportedly beaten to death by ZANU-PF supporters. Witnesses said that Kingswell Muteta confronted a group of ZANU-PF youths who were under the instruction of a senior police officer. The same group of ZANU-PF youths had earlier assaulted Kingswell’s mother to punish her for attending the funeral of her son-in-law, the MDC activist. The ZANU-PF youths took Kingswell Muteta to a camp near Kotwa and accused him of having gone to an “enemy’s” home. He was beaten by about 20 youths. He sustained mainly soft tissue injuries on his buttocks, trunk and lower limbs.18 He was taken to Kotwa Hospital on 18 July and then to Avenues Clinic on 21 July. He died of his injuries on 25 July 2008. ‘War veterans’, ZANU-PF supporters and state agents collaborate CM, an MDC-Tsvangirai director for elections in one of the districts of Mashonaland Central province, was elected as councillor, on 29 March 2008. On 1 June ZANU-PF held a rally at Nyava growth point. When CM went to the growth point in the company of four MDC youths, he was first confronted by “war veterans” in two vehicles who asked him why he was not attending the ZANU-PF rally. After the rally he was again approached by about 10 “war veterans”, one of whom was a women who produced a gun and said “the MDC will never rule this country, which was taken through the barrel of the gun.” They threatened him with violence and ordered him to surrender to ZANU-PF. They told him that he would be “fixed” if he did not comply. On 15 June, a camp was established in CM’s ward led by four named “war veterans”. The next day, CM’s wife and 15-year-old daughter were seized by ZANU-PF youths Amnesty International AI Index: AFR 46/028/2008