17 supporters, round them up, and take them back to be beaten or threatened further. Witnesses testified to the existence of these bases, and others described their victimization in their testimony. Kundishora Nyamupingida, aged 69, recounted an incident in Makoni West on 9 May in which he was assaulted. At about midnight, his homestead was surrounded by a group of Zanu (PF) supporters. They broke the windows of his house, and smashed in the door of his hut in which he and a visiting friend were sleeping. They demanded his MDC t-shirt and card, and as he went to and from the main house to retrieve the items, they beat him with bicycle chains, sticks and fan belts. His friend tried to run away into the bush but was caught and beaten. Nyamupingida was forced to go with the assailants to two other homesteads of MDC supporters that were each assaulted in turn. Next, four Zanu (PF) supporters surrounded him and told him to “run as if he were running to an MDC meeting”. Whichever direction he ran in, each assailant would stop him and beat him in turn. He was then told to board a lorry and was beaten on his side as while struggling in pain to get onto the lorry. After managing to get onto the lorry, he and the other MDC members were taken to a school and instructed to lie on their stomachs. They asked him why he joined MDC and they beat him on his bottom. At this time it was 5 a.m. and he was put in line with the others and told to march. Nyamupinginda told his attackers that he was too much in pain due to his legs and couldn’t march. He and the others were then told to frog jump. They were instructed to touch the ground with one finger while putting the other finger in their ear. He tried to jump but kept falling down due to the pain, so he then asked them if he could go home. They allowed him to leave but would not let anyone assist him home. He did not go to the police when he reached his homestead because he was in too much pain, and did not receive medical treatment because he could not afford it. He gave a statement a week later to the police when they came to his home. Precious Manezhu testified in the Murehwa North case that she was abducted and assaulted by Zanu (PF) supporters who then detained her at Zexcom, a business that was being used by war veterans and Zanu (PF) supporters as a base in the constituency. She was forced twice to stay at Zexcom against her will. Manezhu testified that after she was assaulted, the Zanu (PF) supporters drove her to Zexcom, which the Zanu (PF) supporters were using as a base. They referred to her as a rebel because they said as a member of the MDC she wanted to surrender the country back to the whites. After she arrived at Zexcom, for 1-2 hours the Zanu (PF) supporters danced around her, and would then charge forward and step on her forcefully. She was given a Zanu (PF) t-shirt to wear, put in an innermost room in the building, and forced to spend the night. The following morning, she and other women were released. However, Zanu (PF) youths came to her house around 6 p.m. and told her that they came to collect her again. She agreed to return to Zexcom because she was afraid that they would beat her. However, she was beaten again because they accused her of supporting the MDC. During her captivity, Manezhu’s relatives were prevented from seeing her, she was given bad food, was forced to cook food for the Zanu (PF) supporters, and at times forced to march. She was released from detention on 26 April. After she was released, she and other MDC members were ordered to put their names in a register by Zanu (PF) supporters. Manezhu testified that she was held hostage at Zexcom a second time. On the night of 12 June, Manezhu was asleep at home when she heard a knock on her door. She peeped through a window and saw four Zanu (PF) supporters outside. She recognized one of them because she had seen him every day when she was in captivity. They proceeded to the house next door and called out her name again. She was afraid to answer her door so she snuck out of her house through another entrance and went to her neighbor’s house. She could see from her neighbor’s AMANI Trust: Organised Violence and Torture in the June 2000 General Election in Zimbabwe