3.
Caught in the crossfire________________________________________________________________ 43
4.
Demographics of victims______________________________________________________________ 44
5.
Impact of violence on children _________________________________________________________ 45
6.
Gender ____________________________________________________________________________ 45
7.
Reported violations and medical findings _________________________________________________ 45
8.
Emotional trauma ___________________________________________________________________ 46
Eye witness account of the massacre at Chaona, Mazowe North: _____________________________ 48
5 am on 5th May 2008 _______________________________________________________________ 48
Appendices ________________________________________________________________________ 51
Appendix One: Voting patterns 2008 (ZANJ Financial Network) __________________________________ 52
Appendix Two: pie charts for pre-election period, corresponding to post election charts included in the report53
Appendix Three: Interview with key informant on election strategy of JOC __________________________ 56
Index of Tables
Table 1 House of Assembly2__________________________________________________________________ 13
Table 2: Presidential Results._________________________________________________________________ 13
Table 3: Votes Cast 2000-2008 _______________________________________________________________ 14
Photo 1: In a brave act of defiance, posters of Morgan Tsvangirai hang on the wall of a hut burnt by ZANU PF
supporters in Shamva, April 2008 ..............................................................................................................................1
Photo 2: man burnt with plastic by ZANU PF supporters, April 2008 ......................................................................5
Photo 3: funeral of murdered MDC activist Beta Chakurarama, 17 May 2008 ......................................................20
Photo 4: some of the displaced seeking shelter at Harvest House attend a church service there, 10 May 2008.....25
Photo 5: Beta Chakurarama, activist beaten in April and left with two broken legs, was then abducted and
brutally killed in May, while still in plaster cast ......................................................................................................25
Photo 6: battered and broken, youth from rural MDC structures seek safety at Harvest House, May 2008...........26
Photo 7: child from Mudzi injured on the face during violence in May 2008..........................................................26
Photo 8: mother and child survey their burnt hut, Shamva, April 2008...................................................................33
Photo 9: making tea in burnt hut, Gokwe Nembudziya, May 2008 ..........................................................................33
Photo 10: house in Gokwe Nembudziya destroyed by iron bars by ZANU PF supporters, April 2008 ...................34
Photo 11: homestead burnt by ZANU PF supporters in Shamva, April 2008..........................................................34
Photo 12: buttocks beaten with barbed wire, Mazowe North, May 2008.................................................................40
Photo 13: buttocks severely beaten with necrotic tissue removed, April 2008 ........................................................40
Photo 14: man whipped with chains by ZANU PF supporters, April 2008..............................................................41
Photo 15: front torso of same man, showing beating with fan belts, April 2008 .....................................................41
Photo 16: Geoffry Jemedze, one of those murdered in Mazowe North, 5 May 2008 ...............................................49
Photo 17: elderly man with two fractured arms, beaten by ZANU PF supporters, April 2008 ...............................50
Photo 18: man with fractures of both arms and injury to one leg, after beatings by ZANU PF supporters, ...........50
Photo 19: widow of murdered activist Beta Chakurarama weeps at his funeral, 17 May 2008 .............................59
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