I can assure you that no member of ZANU-PF, no son of the revolution gets to spend a night in police custody no matter what crime they commit, the police belong to ZANU-PF so they cannot arrest their comrades. If they do, ZANU-PF leaders will order immediate release of any ZANU-PF member arrested.84 Lack of Investigations into Extrajudicial Killings after the March 29 Elections Human Rights Watch investigations have already documented widespread statesponsored political violence in Zimbabwe after the March 29, 2008 elections.85 This violence claimed at least 163 lives—nearly all of whom were MDC supporters—in extrajudicial killings perpetrated by ZANU-PF supporters and their allies. Thousands of MDC supporters were also brutally assaulted. Since then, Human Rights Watch is unaware of a single prosecution, let alone a conviction, for any of the killings. Police have made arrests in only two cases; even in these, the accused were quickly released without charge.86 Police made arrests in the cases of Tapiwa Mbwanda from Hurungwe, who was killed on April 5, allegedly by ZANU-PF youths and self-styled war veterans and in the case of former police officer Kingsley Muteta from Mashonaland East province, who died at a private hospital in Harare on July 26 following an attack by 12 suspected ZANU-PF youths at his home in Mudzi. In the Mbwanda case, the four accused were set free after a local ZANU-PF leader had demanded their release; while in the Muteta case, those implicated were released under unclear circumstances.87 Although police reports were filed in all the other cases, Human Rights Watch is not aware of the police conducting even a rudimentary investigation, let alone making arrests. In most of the cases, victims’ families or eyewitnesses even supplied the names of suspected perpetrators to the police. 84 Ibid. 85 See Human Rights Watch “Bullets for Each of You”; Human Rights Watch “They Beat Me Like a Dog”: Political Persecution of Opposition Activists and Supporters in Zimbabwe, August 2008, http://hrw.org/reports/2008/zimbabwe0808/ 86 Human Rights Watch interviews with Tawanda Mbwanda, Harare, August 22, 2008, and with persons familiar with the killing of police officer Kingsley Muteta, Harare, August 29, 2008. 87 Ibid. 27 Human Rights Watch November 2008