Human Rights Forum Report: Who was responsible? was near us just outside, trying to get them to release us. During the day the police were not allowed inside the wall, but at night they were allowed to come and take victims out. Those young guys were not released because they wrote down some names of those in the party structures. They were kept and told that they would be released if the other guys whose names they had mentioned were found and brought in. I was allowed to go, but the others were not. The policeman remained inside and continued to try and persuade them to release the others. I made a report to the police and they gave us letters to go to hospital. Case 4: M.C. (Male) — 8 May 2000 Last Monday (8 May) I was taken to Hunzvi’s surgery. We were at the shopping centre trying to buy bread - myself and Wilson Mandeya and Patrick Mutodanziso. I am well known, someone must have pointed me out. Patrick is (MDC) youth chairman for Budiriro 3. There were about 20 of them. But they were also about 90 war veterans who came to the shops. It was about 7:30 in the morning. They caught Patrick and me but Wilson escaped. They took us to the surgery and told us to remove our clothes. They started to beat us on the ribs with a wooden stick. They tortured us with car jumpers (jump leads). They gave us electric jolts under the arms and on the genitals. They wanted to know our names and positions. They came with a book where names and positions were written. I told them a false name, but when I was checking the book I saw my real name. No 10 on the list with a star beside it. They told me the names with the star are the ones we want. Then they asked me where the others are and where they stay. They beat me under foot using electrical wires. We were tortured in shifts of guys and including women and they were different people who came each time. I told them that I am not MDC but in the NCA so they started to ask me about Lovemore Madhuku (former NCA vice-chairman) and others. The commander there is an old man, an ex-combatant. A group of them came from Gutu and some from my home village there. There were about 150 people there altogether. It is a big house with seven rooms. The women were fond of electrical jolts, they seemed like war veterans. They were not only war vets. Some of them were young, some even less than 22. They spoke Shona, Ndebele, Venda. They just wanted me to go back from MDC. They want us to surrender T-shirts and cards and said that if you join us then we can give you money. They said some of the people there used to be MDC but have changed to Zanu PF, but I didn‟t see any I knew. They may be lying. After about three hours then the police support unit came. They didn‟t come in, but those inside saw the police and told me to put on my clothes and get out of the surgery. They let me out but not Patrick. Case 5: S.M. (Female) — 11 August 2000 My husband was an MDC member and ward treasurer in Budiriro 2. On the 14th of May 2000, my husband, Patrick Chipunza, left home around 9am going to buy some goods. On the way back Zanu (PF) members whom I do not know forcefully abducted him from the public transport he was using. They took him to Chenjerai Hunzvi’s surgery in Budiriro 4 and started assaulting him. They beat him to death. I went and reported the matter on the following day at ZRP Glen View and I was told by one of the officers about the whole incident and he alleged that they had taken to him to Harare Hospital only to receive a call later that he had passed away. My husband was self-employed as a cobbler. I am currently finding it very difficult to fend for my two children who are not yet at school. My husband was laid to rest on the 20th of May 2000 and the funeral expenses were covered by the MDC to the tune of $15 000. Case 6: F.N. (Male) — 7 January 2000 Tortured at the Bikita Minerals by members of the ZANU (PF) led by Chenjerai Hunzvi. They hit him with an iron bar on the lower part of each leg. When he was walking along the main road they forced him to participate in their rally at Svosvera Growth Point. Anyone not present was assaulted. Suffered injuries. Matter could no be reported to the police, because some of them were involved in the assault. Case 7: L. S. (Male) — 12 January 2001 Threatened at the Nyika Growth Point in Bikita with death by a group of ZANU (PF) supporters, armed with guns, iron bars and knobkerries, led by Chenjerai Hunzvi. Suffered injuries on the right arm, when he tried to escape. Did not report nor seek medical treatment out of fear of victimization. About 20 MDC supporters fled into the mountains. Kambuzuma Case 8: D.M. (Male) — 28 April 2000 I am the youth district chairman for MDC in Kambuzuma. On 28 April 2000 I held a meeting at the section 3 shops in Mufakose to arrange for primary elections on the morrow. After the meeting we went to drink beer. Around 9 pm 10