21 ZANU PF Campaign Advert 1990 (Car crash scene) This is one way to die, another is to vote ZUM. Don’t commit suicide. Don’t be foolish. Vote ZANU PF and Live! (Source: Film footage from film entitled Keeping a Loud Voice) Threats by chiefs Chief Charumbira, who is president of the pro-ZANU PF Chiefs' Council and a former junior member of Mugabe's Cabinet, threatened to evict villagers who supported the opposition told villagers that those evicted from his area for backing the opposition would have nowhere to go as other chiefs across the country had also adopted the same policy of banning supporters of the opposition United People's Party and Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) parties from their areas. Charumbira, who spoke in the vernacular Shona language, said: “I have some names of UPP (United People's Party) and MDC supporters whom I have already earmarked for eviction. The position is that only ZANU PF supporters will be allowed to reside in my area. I want my (village) headmen to take note of this position. If you are an opposition supporter this is the time to mend your ways before we come for you and ask you to pack your bags. I don't know where you will go because other chiefs will take a similar stance.” He made the threat at a function organised by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation in rural Masvingo province to mark World Food Day. (Source: Zim Online 24 October 2006) Food riots 1998 Statement by Dumiso Dabengwa “We have been left with no choice but to bring in the army in the execution of our obligations. And they will carry arms and live ammunition and will not hesitate to shoot any people who are trouble causers and who are engaged in looting.” Their words condemn them: The language of violence, intolerance and despotism in Zimbabwe.

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