A survivor of attacks by ZANU-PF militia and “war veterans” on Chaona village in Mashonaland Central province on May 5 that left six men dead88 told Human Rights Watch: [The] perpetrators…are well known. We made several reports to police and gave the names of the perpetrators to police but no arrests have been made. These people who tortured me and killed my uncle and five other villagers are still roaming freely in our community, boasting about their evil deeds with not a single word from the police. In fact these killers are walking as “heroes” in the community, seemingly above the law.89 On June 20 a group of ZANU-PF supporters killed MDC Councilor Gibbs Chironga, and three others in Chiweshe, Mashonaland Central province.90 Gibbs’s sister told Human Rights Watch that the police had neither investigated nor arrested anyone in connection with the death of her brother and three others.91 Deputy Mayor for Harare and MDC Councilor for Ward 42 Emmanuel Chiroto, has been unable to get police to investigate the abduction and subsequent murder of his wife by a suspected ZANU-PF militia on June 16.92 Chiroto told Human Rights Watch: The police have not been cooperative at all. [They] refuse to follow all the leads. For instance, at Borrowdale police station they are aware that when my wife was abducted on the fateful day, the people who abducted her also took a bag containing various certificates. A certain man recently brought back the certificates but police have not questioned him on where he found [them].93 88 Human Rights Watch, Bullets for Each of You, p. 38. 89 Ibid. p.36. 90 Human Rights Watch, “They Beat Me like a Dog”: Political Persecution of Opposition Activists and Supporters in Zimbabwe , August 2008, http://www.hrw.org/reports/2008/zimbabwe0808/, p.10. 91 Human Rights Watch interview with Chironga’s sister, Harare, August 27, 2008. 92 The killing of Chiroto’s wife is documented in Human Rights Watch, “They Beat Me like a Dog.” 93 Human Rights Watch interview with Emmanuel Chiroto, Harare, August 28, 2008. “Our Hands Are Tied” 28