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The involvement of members of parliament has continued to date, with a report of the involvement of
Elliott Manyika – Minister and MP – accompanying militia in attacks on MDC supporters during the strike in
June. Here see the affidavit below:
G.M.
27 year old Male from Glenview 1, Harare, Zimbabwe.
I was at the house of an MDC Councillor. There were about 30 of us MDC youths
present. At about 3am today, Wednesday 4th June, 2003 the front door of the
Councillor’s house was forced open and a group of about 15 soldiers came into the
house. They were dressed in camouflage uniform and 1 was in Police Riot blue
uniform, and all carried AK 47 rifles and batons. They asked us why we were there,
“you are the guys we want to see, you are MDC”. They told us to chant our slogans.
At first we kept quiet, then we chanted the MDC slogans. One of our group was
seen climbing under the bed and he was dragged out, the bed was then put up
against the wall and we were made to lie on our stomachs and were beaten again
with the baton and rifle butts. The soldiers were saying “ why do you want Mugabe
to go, how much money are you being given, where is MADZORE (MDC MP for Glen
View)?”. Afterwards they made us collect all the food and groceries in the house and
carry them out to their Army lorry and a light blue Mazda 323. I did not recognise
any of the soldiers but I did see ELLIOT MANYIKA MP with them. I sustained injuries
to my back, right leg and arm and buttocks.
See Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (2000), Who is responsible? A preliminary analysis of preelection violence in Zimbabwe, HARARE: ZIMBABWE HUMAN RIGHTS NGO FORUM.
xxii See especially Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (2002), Human Rights and Zimbabwe’s
Presidential Election: March 2002, HARARE: ZIMBABWE HUMAN RIGHTS NGO FORUM
xxiii See Human Rights Watch (1996), Shattered Lives. Sexual Violence during the Rwanda Genocide and its
Aftermath, NEW YORK: HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH. As this report notes:” During the Second World War, some
200,000 Korean women were forcibly held in sexual slavery to the Japanese army. During the armed conflict
in Bangladesh in 1971, it is estimated that 200,000 civilian women and girls were victims of rape committed
by Pakistani soldiers. Mass rape of women has been used since the beginning of the conflict in the Former
Yugoslavia. Throughout the Somali conflict beginning in 1991, rival ethnic factions have used rape against
rival ethnic factions. During 1992 alone, 882 women were reportedly gang-raped by Indian security forces in
Jammu and Kashmir. In Peru in 1982, rape of women by security forces was a common practice in the
ongoing armed conflict between the Communist Party of Peru, the Shining Path, and government
counterinsurgency forces. In Myanmar, in 1992, government troops raped women in a Rohingya Muslim
village after the men had been inducted into forced labor. Under the former Haitian military regime of Lt.
Gen. Raoul Cédras, rape was used as a tool of political repression against female activists or female relatives
of opposition members”.
xxiv See Amani (2002), Preliminary Report of a Survey on Internally Displaced Persons from Commercial
Farms in Zimbabwe, HARARE: AMANI TRUST.
xxv See Daily News, 16 April 2002, Women vow to expose sexually abusive political thugs ; see also Daily
News, 5 December 2002, Women protest against abuse in Zanu PF camps
xxvi
These concerns have already been raised by Amnesty International. See Amnesty International,
Zimbabwe: Assault and sexual violence by militia, 5 April 2002.
xxvii See the various conclusions and recommendations in the following reports: Zimbabwe Human Rights
NGO Forum (1999), A Consolidated Report on the Food Riots 19—23 January 1998, HARARE: ZIMBABWE
HUMAN RIGHTS NGO FORUM; Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, (1999), Organised Violence and
Torture in Zimbabwe in 1999, HARARE: ZIMBABWE HUMAN RIGHTS NGO FORUM; Zimbabwe Human Rights
NGO Forum (2000), Organised Violence and Torture in Zimbabwe in 2000, HARARE: ZIMBABWE HUMAN
RIGHTS NGO FORUM; Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (2001), Organised Violence and Torture in
Zimbabwe in 2001, HARARE: ZIMBABWE HUMAN RIGHTS NGO FORUM.
xxviii See Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (2003), Torture by State Agents in Zimbabwe: January 2001
to August 2002, HARARE: ZIMBABWE HUMAN RIGHTS NGO FORUM.
xxix See NGO Food Security Network (2003), Community Assessment of the Food Situation in Zimbabwe,
December 2002 / January 2003, HARARE: FOSENET.
xxi
The Perpetrators of Gross Human Rights Violations in the current violence in Zimbabwe.
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