02 Aug
Challenge Tauro
Gun
shots
- Victim was shot twice
in the abdomen on
the 1st of August
2018
near
Gulf
Complex where he
worked.
He
was
taken
to
Harare
hospital first then to
Parirenyatwa hospital
where he died. He
was buried at New
Valley
Farm,
Chifamba Ward 20 in
Mazowe
Challenge was 20
years old. and
worked at the Gulf
complex in Harare
CBD.
He
is
survived by his
wife.
b) Assaults - From 1 - 6 August 2018, the monitors received calls from people in
high density suburbs who reported that the military was moving around
beating up residence. The assailants were identified by the witnesses as they
disembarked from military vehicles, clad in military attire camouflage armed
with AK Rifles and sjamboks. It was reported that there were two groups.
The first group was beating people at random. The second group had a list of
names of opposition supporters that they were hunting for. It was reported
that they went door to door beating them up. In the rural areas, assaults were
reported of members of the ruling party who attacked opposition persons who
had been acting as polling agents. Monitors from the Forum were informed
that some of the victims tried to seek medical help at Chitungwiza General
Hospital but were turned away. The Forum interviewed one of the doctors
who later assisted the victims at a private facility. The medical practitioner
confirms that he saw the military vehicles in the area. The total number of
assaults is estimated to be fifty eight (58) and Seven (7) non-fatal gun shots
by the time this report was compiled. The victims, some of whom had bullets
lodged in their bodies including a deaf and dumb 44 year old male victim and
some with soft tissue injuries received medical treatment.
Of the 58 cases of assault, the ZNA accounted for 42 cases (73%); 10 cases
(17%) where purely political involving clashes between ZANU-PF and MDC-A
supporters while five (5; 9%) of the documented cases were attributed to
unknown man usually putting on masks and one (1; 1%) involved the ZRP.
On 01 August 2018, at Kuwadzana 4 shops Ward 44, G.M was reportedly
assaulted with button sticks and booted feet by approximately 10 to 12
soldiers. The victim sustained injuries on his right eye, ribs, thigh and lower
backs. The matter was reported under (RRB3640228) at Kuwadzana Police
Station.
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