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Original Post Date: 2008-04-19 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
Supporters of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party have set up a network of torture camps where they have been assaulting opposition activists, a leading rights group said on Saturday.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch said that suspected supporters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) were being rounded up and then beaten for several hours at a time with wooden sticks and batons in the wake of last month’s disputed elections.
“Torture and violence are surging in Zimbabwe,” Human Rights Watch’s Africa director Georgette Gagnon said in a new report.
“Zanu-PF members are setting up torture camps to systematically target, beat, and torture people suspected of having voted for the MDC in last month’s elections.”
The organisation said that it had conducted interviews with more than 30 people who had sustained serious injuries, including broken limbs, as a result of the beatings in the camps.
The aim of the beatings was to punish people for voting for the opposition in the March 29 polls and coerce them into supporting Mugabe in a possible second round run-off, HRW added.
Human Rights Watch said the camps could not operate without the complicity of senior officials and accused governments from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) of failing to bring pressure to bear on Mugabe.
“The SADC and President Mbeki have completely failed Zimbabweans, and are allowing Zanu-PF to commit horrific abuses,” said Gagnon.
South African President Thabo Mbeki, who was reappointed at a SADC summit last week to mediate between Zanu-PF and the opposition, has been heavily criticised over his refusal to publicly upbraid the 84-year-old Mugabe.
The results of the presidential election, in which Mugabe was seeking a sixth term in office, have still to be announced although Zanu-PF lost its majority in parliament in simultaneous legislative polls.
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080419113323203C603613