armed men, some in police uniform, took Ndira from his home in Mabvuku, Harare and bundled him into a truck.58 One relative who identified the body of Ndira at the hospital told Human Rights Watch that his eyes had been gouged out, and his tongue and lips cut off. He also had extensive injuries to his head and face, and suspected stab and bullet wounds. Police refused to release his body into the custody of his family for an independent post mortem to be done to ascertain the cause of death. The body was only handed over to Ndira’s family for an independent post mortem and burial after the intervention of lawyers, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, who secured a court order compelling police to release the body.59 On May 22, four persons suspected by eyewitnesses to be CIO agents reportedly abducted the losing senatorial MDC candidate for Murehwa North in Mashonaland East. His body was found in the Goromonzi Mountains, Mashonaland East two days later.60 Torture Camps and Bases in Manicaland, Mashonaland East, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland West and Masvingo Victims and eyewitnesses from Mashonaland East, Mashonaland West and Mashonaland Central, Manicaland and Masvingo told Human Rights Watch about the establishment of torture camps throughout the provinces in the immediate aftermath of the parliamentary and first presidential elections. The camps are used to beat and torture victims to punish for voting for the MDC, to extract information from the victims on the whereabouts of other MDC activists and supporters, and finally to force victims to denounce the MDC and swear allegiance to ZANU-PF. One 36-year-old MDC activist who was tortured at a base in Mashonaland East on April 10 told Human Rights Watch: About 35 people came to my hut around 2 a.m. led by our village headman who is also a “war veteran.” They forced their way into my hut and they dragged me, my mother and my wife from the hut and 58 Human Rights Watch interview with relative of Tonderai Ndira, Harare, May 22, 2008. 59 Human Rights Watch Interview with Harrison Nkomo, lawyer, May 26, 2008. 60 Restore our Human Rights Zimbabwe Alert, “Shepperd Jani Murdered,” May 24, 2008. “Bullets for Each of You” 30

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