June 2008 1-56432-324-2 “Bullets for Each of You” State-Sponsored Violence since Zimbabwe’s March 29 Elections I. Summary............................................................................................................... 1 II. Recommendations ...............................................................................................5 To the Government of Zimbabwe .........................................................................5 To the Movement for Democratic Change ........................................................... 6 To the Southern African Development Community .............................................. 6 To the African Union............................................................................................7 To the EU, US and other international donors ..................................................... 8 To United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.............................................. 8 III. Methodology.......................................................................................................9 IV. Background....................................................................................................... 10 Organized Political Violence.............................................................................. 10 Ongoing State Repression................................................................................. 12 General Elections in March 2008....................................................................... 12 V. State-Sponsored Violence and Torture since the March 29 Elections.................. 14 A Campaign of Violence .................................................................................... 14 Reasons for the Violence................................................................................... 15 Incitement and Organization of the Violence ..................................................... 17 VI. Patterns of Violence ......................................................................................... 29 Abductions and Killings in Mashonaland East and Harare .................................29 Torture Camps and Bases in Manicaland, Mashonaland East, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland West and Masvingo........................................................30 “Re-education” Meetings in Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East and Mashonaland West ...........................................................................................34