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teacher Masiraha Mugabe is still teaching at Gresham Primary School. D.K. is busy invading
farms and parceling out pieces of land. We see them here everyday, boasting. Madiro was
promoted and is now based in Harare.
No-one was arrested or punished for this violence. The known assailants are here, bracing for a
new wave of violence in the presidential election campaign of 2002.
Mr Mafusire was the head of the campaign committee for my constituency. His attack and injury
threw the campaign programme into disarray. The involvement of the police and CIO in the
assaults made MDC supporters shrink with fear. No meaningful election campaign occurred in
Zvishavane after this unprovoked attack by ZANU-PF supporters two and a half months before
polling.
As will be seen from all of the above, a large number of different groups and government
agencies are implicated in the perpetration of gross human rights violations. Most significant of
these violations is torture, which was practiced on an exceedingly wide scale, and it is crucial to
an understanding of the General Election to understand torture.
AMANI Trust: Organised Violence and Torture in the June 2000 General Election in Zimbabwe
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