Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum Report — Of Stuffed ballots and Empty Stomachs shouted that he was an MDC member and that maize should not be sold to him. It is alleged that one of the people who was there then approached the victim and asked him what his business was, to which the victim replied that he only wanted to buy maize. Someone then shouted out that others near the victim were also MDC supporters. ZANU(PF) youths at the maize distribution centre then started to assault these people. The youths surrounded the victim and, as he tried to run away, he tripped and fell. The youths then trampled on the victim. The youths dispersed after onlookers eventually intervened fearing the attackers would kill the victim. 7. A then pregnant victim claims that in Murehwa on 23 April 2005, while at home, she heard someone calling her by her name and when she went out to check on the visitor, she saw about 9 men. They assaulted her with sticks accusing her of being Tsvangirai’s (the MDC leader) prostitute. She tried to escape but as she ran away she fell and she was kicked all over the body. She miscarried 4 days later. Evictions and expulsions In its April Report the NGO Forum carried details of some 53 people being forced to leave their homes because they were MDC supporters. Such reports were received from all around the country including Bindura, Chegutu, Chikomba, Chinhoyi, Guruve, Lupane, Mount Darwin, Rushinga and Uzumba Maramba Pfungwe. Two typical reports received by the NGO Forum are these: 1. At the beginning of April the victim was forced out of Bindura for being an MDC activist. He had to relocate to Harare while another victim was allegedly forced to close down his business in Madziva. He also says he had to flee his home because of threats of violence issued against him for being an MDC activist. 2. In mid April a man was evicted from his home in Muzarabani while another man was assaulted by ZANU-PF activists because they support the MDC and also because they were MDC election agents in the parliamentary elections. They were allegedly ordered to go and live in Harare “because that is where MDC people live”. They had to relocate with their families. Similar reports documented by other agencies include these: 1. In April 2005 more than thirty families were allegedly evicted from three farms in Hurungwe East, in the course of a witch hunt by ZANU(PF) party supporters to sniff out people who had actively campaigned for the MDC during the elections. The evictions were allegedly spearheaded by a person known as Machinga, a ZANU(PF) activist, with the 36