32 murder charge was withdrawn for lack of evidence and he was freed. Charges of kidnapping and unlawful possession of a firearm still stand. Chitekuteku will appear in court on March 26. The ZRP claim Stevens and his farm workers seriously assaulted 24 farm invaders and refused to report to the ZRP. No arrests were made and affidavits were lodged with CID. Arizona farm was first invaded in February; at that time 35 invaders were given shelter by Stevens. The invaders were attacked and his workers injured 14 on 15 April 2000 after a farm worker’s daughter was harassed (it is unclear whether she was raped) and her brother intervened and was assaulted. War veterans were holding a meeting at Zexcom offices in Murehwa when they received a message that farm workers were assaulting war veterans occupying Arizona Farm. After receiving the message, Chitekuteku is said to have mobilized war veterans to go to the farm. War vets, some wearing Zanu (PF) t-shirts abducted Stevens to Murehwa police station, and the ZRP let them take him away after he and 5 white farmers who had given chase were assaulted. Invaders on neighbouring farms then set fire to farm and farm workers’ property; farm workers fled into nearby hills. Julius Adoche, 20 April 2000, Macheke, Murehwa South. Adoche, a farm foreman, was assaulted and shot in the head at Arizona Farm. Thirty-five invaders were given shelter by the farm-owner Stevens, but his workers injured 14 people in an attack on 15 April. War veterans wearing Zanu (PF) t-shirts abducted Stevens, and Andoche was killed five days later. No arrests were made. Allan Stewart Dunn, 7 May 2000, Seke. Dunn was called out of his house at Maasplein Farm in Beatrice and assaulted by six Zanu (PF) supporters with stones, bricks and chains. Wire was tied around his neck but he was not strangled. He later died of severe head injuries. No one was arrested. Dunn was a well-known MDC supporter and a possible candidate in his area. He had received numerous threats. His farm workers believe his death to be political and not related to farm invasion violence. In 1998 he had defeated a Zanu (PF) candidate in a ward election. The six assailants arrived at the farm in a government-owned PTC truck. John Weeks, 14 May 2000, Beatrice, Nyachidze Farm, Seke. Invaders who were identified as five Zanu (PF) supporters and war veterans shot Weeks in the abdomen after they entered his farmhouse after dark. He later died of cardiac arrest. His farm had been invaded in February. Musekiwa Kufandaedza, 27 May 2000, Seke, Marondera West. Kufandaedza, a Zanu (PF) supporter, was shot in the abdomen by Zanu (PF) supporters on May 27 2000. He died in Harare Hospital two days later. Nhamo Gwase, June 2000, Murehwa South. Gwase, an MDC supporter, was abducted from Musami homestead to a war veteran base and tortured, including genital mutilation. He later died. CID in Murehwa South arrested suspect Magaya, but he was freed by 25 war veterans who assaulted his two uniformed ZRP guards and stole their handcuffs, radio and parts of their uniform. Magaya is still at large, but the 25 war veterans were arrested. Tavengwa Charles Nyandoro, 16 July 2000 (assaulted in April), Mutoko North.(U.P.) Anthony Mashinga, Date unreported. Mashinga was in a vehicle that was attacked by Zanu (PF) supporters in Goromonzi. He was killed when the vehicle overturned and others were injured. AMANI Trust: Organised Violence and Torture in the June 2000 General Election in Zimbabwe

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