31 Hospital. Five suspects were arrested on 30 March 2000 and remanded in custody in Mvurwi. ZRP said they had received no report of Gomo’s death; two trucks belonging to a commercial farmer petrol-bombed after being used to ferry MDC supporters to rally. Doreen Marufu, 2 April 2000, Mazowe. Marufu’s death resulted from Zanu (PF) supporters stoning a Munhenzva bus that was carrying MDC supporters. She was six months pregnant. Thirteen Zanu (PF) supporters were arrested; it is unclear what happened thereafter. Deaths of Musoni and Marufu were not previously reported. It is still unclear whether they died in the same incident; bus had all windows shattered; ZRP denied concealment. Peter and Howard Karidza / Kareza, 23 April 2000, Shamva. Peter and Howard Karidza, MDC supporters, were severely assaulted with sticks by 50 Zanu (PF) supporters on 23 April for failing to produce a Zanu (PF) membership card. Peter died the following morning of a fractured skull. His house, two huts and toilet were burned down. His wife was also assaulted. His son, Howard, died seven months later on 13 December in Karanda Mission Hospital, having never fully recovered from the assault. Five suspects were arrested, but a later ZRP statement makes no reference to these reported arrests, and says merely investigations are still ongoing. ZRP Inspector Angeline Guvamombe reported stating that Karidza was assaulted because he was an MDC supporter. (First name unknown) Banda, 24 April 2000, Shamva. MDC Assaulted in clash between Zanu (PF) and MDC; SA reports say killed with an axe while campaigning. Five people were arrested. Matthew Pfebve, 30 April 2000, Mount Darwin North. In Mukumbura, at Nyakatongo Village, John Karikoga and 200 Zanu (PF) supporters beat retired ZRP officer Pfebve severely with sticks and stones and he died as a result of his injuries. His father and mother were also assaulted. Five unnamed arrested and appeared in Bindura court; unclear what has happened to them. ZRP regarded this as ‘politically-motivated’. Matthew’s younger brother Elliott is an MDC organizer and candidate for Bindura. Zanu (PF) youths based at Kamutsenzere Primary School were responsible for this and other attacks on villages in the Mount Darwin area. Mashonaland East Province Tinashe Chakwenya, 4 April 2000, Marondera. Chakwenya, a ZRP constable, was on duty when he was shot. He was out of uniform and armed with a service pistol. According to police contacted by MMPZ, Constable Chakwenda was one of several officers who on 4 March had arrested members of a war veteran militia in connection with the severe beating of Iain Kay, an MDC supporter whose farm had been occupied. Those arrested were released on arrival at Marondera police station. Constable Chakwenya asked Zanu (PF) youth outside Chipesa Farm directions to Monte Christo Farm to investigate stock theft just after 6 am on 4 April; he was then shot dead while riding his bicycle to work in Marondera. A suspect was arrested on a murder charge, was found guilty of murder in February 2001 and sentenced to death. David Stevens, 15 April 2000, Macheke, Dapandare River Bridge, Murehwa South. Stevens was abducted from his Arizona farm and taken manacled in his own truck by invaders to Murehwa police station. The Murehwa ZRP allowed war veterans to take him away for interrogation about his support for MDC. He was driven out of Murehwa with another farmer, severely assaulted while still manacled, then shot twice in the neck, jaw and back by David Chitekuteku with a gun registered to Charles Matanda. Charles Gwejegweje, a CIO agent was also implicated in the shooting. Two Air Force of Zimbabwe helicopters found Stevens’ body at Dapandare River Bridge. A second farmer was spared only by a woman’s appeal for his life, whilst two others were severely tortured. Chitekuteku remanded in custody to October 2000. The AMANI Trust: Organised Violence and Torture in the June 2000 General Election in Zimbabwe