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Original Post Date: 2006-03-10  Posted By: Jan

From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 3/10/2006
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Zimbabwe: Crackdown on Mugabe&QUOT;s opposition

From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org


Date & Time Posted: 3/10/2006

Zimbabwe: Crackdown on Mugabe&QUOT;s opposition

[The big question is whether the arms cache is real, or whether it is a trick by Mugabe. Jan]

Kumbirai Mafunda Senior Reporter
Harare

STATE security agents yesterday arrested three opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) officials in connection with the discovery of an arms cache in Manicaland, but the opposition party said this was a ploy by the government to derail its second national congress scheduled for next week.

Giles Mutsekwa, a former army officer and the legislator for Mutare North, was picked up at a Harare hotel and taken in for questioning by police.

Plainclothes policemen also arrested businessman Brian James, the party’s provincial treasurer for Manicaland and Knowledge Nyamhoka, the provincial youth chairman in Mutare yesterday.

Mutsekwa was transferred to Mutare under heavy guard late yesterday.

The MDC’s Manicaland provincial spokesperson Pishai Muchauraya told The Financial Gazette that state security agents, including policemen, members of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) and some military intelligence officers raided the party’s offices and arrested James.

Muchauraya also reported that the security agents had raided Mutsekwa’s home.

State media reported on Tuesday that security agents recovered an arms cache which included AK 47 automatic rifles, machineguns, shotguns, pistols, teargas canisters, flares, thousands of rounds of ammunition and a two-way radio communication system at the home of one Peter Hitschmann, charging that “it was a broader destabilisation scheme involving opposition supporters and army officers.”

MDC spokesperson Nelson Chamisa yesterday dissociated his party from the arms cache, saying the MDC had no links with Hitschmann, who, according to state media reports, confessed to hatching a plot to destabilise the country. Chamisa charged that the arrest of his party’s officials was calculated to derail the MDC congress, which is scheduled for next week.

“Although the majority of Zimbabweans have lost faith and confidence in Zimbabwe’s electoral process, the MDC’s quest for democratic change shall only be realised through peaceful democratic resistance.

“We wish to place it on record that the MDC does not have any links with the ZRP special constabulary member, Mr Hitschmann, the so-called Zimbabwe Freedom Movement or any person or group that seeks to effect regime change through the barrel of the gun, an armed struggle, violence and unconstitutional means,” said Chamisa.

“The MDC is not a movement of bandits. Our activities are over ground (sic) instead of underground . . . we don’t believe in using guns to communicate . . . we believe in the power of the people and the pressure of the masses,” he added.

Police spokesperson Wayne Bvudzijena said he could not comment as he was still waiting to be updated about the arrests by police in Manicaland.

Source: AllAfrica.Com
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200603090057.htm…/p>


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