They would make sure that they gather everybody at the scene where they want to kill so
they will be beating you up while everyone is watching, your mother, your father, your wife
and your kids - making sure the message reaches down home that if you become MDC, this
is how we will deal with you, so its really a terror campaign.
The manner in which he is executing the killings, they are so professionally done. He will
make sure he breaks your legs, he will break your arms, break your backbone, he will
crush your head. If you survive you will be a cabbage. It’s someone who is so professional.
It’s not something which you expect somebody with a military background to do. Probably
one would just break your leg and let you go.
Definitely he [Mandhu, MP] was present. Even all the victims will tell you he was in the
forefront with the firearm, because some of the injuries - the broken jaws - were done by
the butt of the gun. He was actually in the forefront and would give instructions and direct
how it should be done. When they want to deal with your backbone they will make sure you
are laid on a log and they will deal with your backbone. When they want to crush your
private parts, they do it like that. He was so organised in the whole operation. He was sort
of the commander of the whole operation. It’s a well orchestrated terror campaign.
He [Mhandu] is one of the farm occupiers. He took Galloway states in Mvurwi. He just took
everything including trucks and its one of the bases he is using and that is where he is also
getting the terrified farm workers who have been brutalised. They are also shipped to go and
terrorise the villagers to add the numbers to scare off the villagers. These guys are being used as
pawns. After being beaten in the farms, accused of supporting the MDC, they are taken to the
rural areas to help terrorize the rural villagers.
Photo 16: Geoffry Jemedze, one of those murdered in Mazowe North, 5 May 2008
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