Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum: Report on political violence in Bulawayo, Harare, Manicaland, Mashonaland West, Masvingo, Matabeleland North, Matabeleland South and Midlands of Matambo farm the campaign managers said Greaves would be decapitated and his head would be presented to the people. 22 June, Inyathi Amani reports that two girls, aged 14 and 15, have been raped by a person who searched their house for MDC membership cards, ID cards and money. When he did not find the parents at home and had collected money and cards, he took the girls to the bush and raped them. MATABELAND SOUTH Teachers Most primary schools in Filabusi were temporarily closed for most of the past two weeks as teachers in the area were accused of supporting MDC vice president Gibson Sibanda, who comes from the area. Other incidents Other incidents that have been reported in this province include the following: Week of 12 April Civilians living on communal farms near Empandeni Mission, Matabeleland South, were woken at 2 am and forced by armed war veterans to leave their homes and stake land claims on two white-owned commercial farms, against their will. They are being forced to remain on these farms, and told to build new homesteads there, but they are concerned about their crops at their original homesteads, as they now cannot harvest them, or protect them from monkeys. Week of 25 April Eyewitness accounts of the ZANU (PF) MP for Gwanda District conducting his election campaign mainly around the statement that those who did not vote for him would be murdered and their bodies thrown into the nearby dam. Week of 25 April to the present, Matabeleleland Many first hand accounts given to AMANI Trust staff of gross intimidation including death threats, threats of assault, and most ominously threats of disappearance, being repeatedly given at ZANU (PF) rallies, and people feeling coerced into buying ZANU (PF) membership cards. These threats have been widely recorded in Gwanda, Matobo, Tsholotsho and Lupane Districts so far, and it is rural civilians who are being targeted. 3 May, Filabusi The MDC candidate is very seriously assaulted by ZANU (PF) supporters, several other MDC supporters and bystanders seriously assaulted – reports and medical records still coming in on this incident. MDC candidate – serious head injuries, MDC driver - back injuries, MDC supporter – stabbed in head with screw driver: serious face to face death threats and beatings of several others including a local headmaster from surrounding villages, and women MDC supporters. This is home district of Gibson Sibanda, Vice President of MDC. 10 May, Bulilimamangwe, A villager accused of supporting MDC severely beaten by war veterans: continuing stories of forced resettlement of some villagers against their will, and of many verbal and physical threats. Violence reported at Plumtree business center and at nearby Diba, resulting in 10 hospitalisations 14 May Plumtree A Zimrights member has his front door chopped down at 1.00 am by 20 war veterans and Zanu (PF) supporters and is accused of being an MDC supporter. He is beaten and so are his wife, his 4 year old child and his uncle. His house is searched. They find a medical card made from the side of packet of sterilised gloves is found. It has a picture of a hand on it and this is taken as evidence of his support for MDC. The man is nearly killed. His is hospitalised with three fractured bones and head wounds. 15 May Filabusi The trial of the Zanu (PF) supporters accused of brutally assaulting an MDC candidate was postponed. 12