Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum Report — Of Stuffed ballots and Empty Stomachs allegedly told Ibrahim that he was no longer welcome in the area because he belonged to the MDC and had voted for the opposition party in the March 31 election. Before Ibrahim could flee his village to the neighbouring Karoi town, where dozens of other MDC supporters have fled since the retribution campaign began a week after the election, he was waylaid and kidnapped by 16 ZANU(PF) militants who murdered him in cold blood. “He had alerted the police that his life was in danger at the time he was summoned to the village court,” a local MDC leader said. A police inspector Khumalo at Karoi police station, which oversees Hurungwe, confirmed the murder of Ibrahim. He said no one had by yesterday been arrested over the murder but said investigations into the matter where still in progress. Hurungwe East Constituency falls under Mashonaland West Province. Haurovi, who was also the MDC’s candidate in the constituency in election, said he was struggling to provide for dozens of families living at his house in Karoi town after they were forced by ZANU(PF) militants to flee their homes.83 Incidents allegedly involving ZANU(PF) MPs 1. According to the Zimbabwe Peace Project, almost immediately after the election, teachers and clergymen in Makoni East were targeted by ZANU(PF) supporters who accused them of having drummed up support for the MDC in the run up to the poll. ZANU(PF) youths and war veterans, allegedly at the behest of the constituency’s new MP, Shadreck Chipanga, embarked on a retribution campaign aimed at weeding out perceived MDC supporters, especially in areas like Nyabadza, Ndingi, Gambe, Zuze, Rugoyi and Gandanzara. Polling stations in these areas revealed considerable support for the MDC. In the RugoyiChemusango villages war veterans, at the instigation of Chief Basil Rugoyi, threatened teachers and the local Roman Catholic Church priest based at St. Kilian’s Mission, with expulsion after accusing them of having increased the MDC’s support base in the area. Counting at the polling station there revealed considerable support for the MDC. Some teachers at Nyarwizi and Dope Secondary schools were reportedly told by local war veterans and ZANU(PF) youths not to return to work at the reopening of the school for the next term. This, the war veterans allegedly said, was as a result of the teachers having clandestinely supported the MDC in its campaigns.84 2. The MDC allege that ZANU(PF) winning candidate for Insiza and Transport Deputy Minister, Andrew Langa, led reprisals in Matabeleland South. The MDC said Langa attacked its supporters at a business centre in Filabusi on the Sunday after the elections. It 83 84 Zimonline 2 May 2005 and Zimbabwe Standard 8 May 2005 Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) Report dated 8 April 2005 31