19 Mr. Tsvangirai, his driver and bodyguard were thrown in, and the frenzy of beatings were taken to a higher level. The victim was beaten on the buttocks and when he turned over he was hit on the legs. The blows to the left leg fractured his knee cap. One of the female assaulting team jumped on his tummy claiming it was “fat from Tony Blair’s money”. When these assaulters got tired, they stopped and once again they were told to lie down with faces downwards. They were then ordered to get into the truck and once more, lie face downwards. The injured were not given any treatment. Torture: Assault and Detention [11 March 2007] The victim claims that on 11/03/07 he had accompanied Mr. Tsvangirai to Machipisa Police Station as his body guard, to see other officials of the party who had been arrested. When they arrived and parked their car almost two hundred officers were gathered outside the police station. They walked into the police station and a woman officer told them to go to the fenced court yard where they found their officials being battered all over with gum poles, batons and metal bars. When the police saw Mr. Tsvangirai the whole police camp jeered telling him to call Bush and Blair to help him. Next it was flying kicks all over Mr. Tsvangirai. The victim saw three Policemen beating Mr. Tsvangirai with large sticks and metal objects on the head and he passed out three times. They came to victim and asked him why he was a bodyguard to Bush and Blair’s’ puppet. He was beaten all over the body especially on the head and was left when he passed out. When he came to, he was assaulted again, until he vomited blood. They were then thrown in a big lorry, packed like fire wood, lying on their stomachs and taken to Harare Central Police Station where again they were ordered to lie prone on the tarmac facing on the ground. They were held in police cells. Many more cases could be given to illustrate the point that torture and ill-treatment were meted out to those accused of “public violence”, but this is unnecessary. As was seen above, the trend seen so commonly in the past was repeated on 11th March and subsequently continued as this case below illustrates, and this case also illustrates the frequent use of proxy forces by the law enforcement agencies. Torture: Assault and Detention [25 March 2007] The victim reported that after the Zimbabwe/ Morocco Soccer match he was in a party of 15 who were distributing NCA fliers, they were caught by 5 men in plain clothes who accused them of petrol bombing police stations. They were taken to the base (known as ZANU PF base in Mbare called Chipangano base) They were beaten up by 8 men until they started bleeding from the mouth and nose. They were then told to go wash their clothes to erase evidence of victimization. They put on their wet clothes and where taken to Rufaro Stadium, where they were beaten up again. They were being pinched and pain inflicted on their private parts. The client and his group started crying out and screaming until riot police came to their rescue. They were then handcuffed and taken to Mbare Police Station. Before the riot police came they had been searched and their money was taken, the victim had $110,000 stolen. They were then held at Mbare Police Station, the following morning 5 police officers came and beat them with fists and kicked and punched them. (The perpetrators told the client that they were ZANU PF militia). The ZRP response to dissent to government policy, as revealed in its own report, is of concern, but is entirely in keeping with other reports in this regard. It is significant that over the ten-year period since 1998, the Forum and its members have frequently documented and publicised the involvement of the ZRP in the perpetration of gross human rights violations. The Forum has issued numerous reports on torture and other gross human rights violations, and members of the ZRP have featured prominently as perpetrators in all these reports. Two reports have been issued specifically on the ZRP, and in both of these reports the Forum