27 and leg injuries and was subsequently hospitalized. Mhiripiri and his youths attacked patrons of Shangwe BC. Magumura and Kwaramba were isolated from the rest and beaten unconscious. The police rushed them to the hospital. • On 7 July, at Vengere Nightclub in Rusape, Zanu (PF) supporters from the Self-Help Development Foundation, run by Gibson Munyoro, assaulted MDC supporter Nation Sagwete. The assailants used a white pick-up truck with registration number 635-393T. Munyoro, the former Makoni South MP and Zanu (PF)’s Makoni district secretary for production, was recently selected as Zanu (PF) candidate for the Makoni West seat that has fallen vacant following Moven Mahachi’s death. Munyoro admitted that the truck was his, but denied involvement despite running SHDF. • Solomon Karuru and his three children, Bishop, Elias, Saliwe were beaten on 25 July in Marowa. The father was assaulted as reprisal for children’s support of the MDC, and then his children were assaulted when they tried to intervene. • On 17 August Zanu (PF) supporters brutalized local MDC vice-chairperson Douglas Chapoterera along with his wife, Chipo, and son, Nathan. The assailants arrived at Chapoterera’s house in a white pick-up truck armed with pickaxe handles and sticks. Some were wearing Zanu (PF) t-shirts. Chapoterera’s wife, four children and niece were in the house when it was set alight. His one-year-old baby was at one point trapped in the burning house before being rescued by her mother. Property worth more than $600,000 was damaged in the blaze. Chipo Chapoterera was treated for multiple wounds at Rusape General Hospital. • Zanu (PF) supporters and members of ‘war veteran’ militias trailed MDC supporters from Mushangwe resettlement area and crossed into Adams farm after failing to locate the MDC supporters on their hit list. They set a church alight when they failed to find the supporters. The church was burnt after the assailants saw posters of the MDC candidate, Remus Makuwaza, plastered around a nearby farm. Torture bases were set up at Chiunya SC, Chiwetu Rest Camp, St. Theresa, Maoresa SC, Tsanzaguru, Gwangadza, Chiundu School and Mavhudzi. • Morgan Maraire, an MDC supporter, was attacked and threatened with death by unknown MDC supporters. He was told that he would ‘not live to see the by-election’, scheduled to be held on 8 and 9 September. He fled to Harare. • MDC supporter Samuel Mugauri had his home burnt down in Mupambawashe Village on 26 August by unknown Zanu (PF) supporters. Household goods and 900kg of maize were also lost. • Zanu (PF) supporters assaulted Gibson Ratimba, Revai Magondo and Richard Mutemi because they were campaigning for the MDC. • In Rusape, Zanu (PF) supporters told unnamed headmen that the government would strip them of their titles if they failed to get people to attend Zanu (PF) rallies and to vote for Zanu (PF). Each headman was asked to bring all his people to Zanu (PF) rallies and to write down the names of those who would have failed to attend. • Mhiripiri and other unnamed Zanu (PF) supporters severely beat MDC supporter John Rusere. • J.M. was in Shangwe Bottle Store around 6 p.m. when a group of people in two cars arrived at Remus Makuwaza’s shop. They wanted to enter but J.M. and others tried to bar them from entering. He was hit in the left eye by a piece of wire. AMANI TRUST: Organised Violence and Torture in the Bye-Elections held in Zimbabwe during 2000 and 2001.