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Original Post Date: 2008-04-21 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Peta Thornycroft
Harare – “We ran into the forest and saw about 50 people burning our house down and taking all our things. My father was a candidate and he told us to run away and he ran away to another place.”
These are the words of Chingatayi Chimomo who is 13, seems small and frail for his age, and is unhurt.
But he is a refugee – separated from his parents, far from his home about 260km north-east of Zimbabwe and close to the Mozambique border.
| ‘I am a carpenter, mostly making coffins, which is the best job these days’ |
Chingatayi was safe on Sunday in a private hospital. Staff don’t have the heart to send him away, although its wards are overflowing with victims of President Robert Mugabe’s thugs.
The youth’s father John was Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) parliamentary candidate in remote Pfungwe-Maramba on March 29.
The violence against the MDC began 10 days after Zanu-PF found it had lost its parliamentary majority. The focus was on Mugabe’s strongholds where his popularity slumped dramatically.
“My father got a rumour and so he told us he must run away and told us to go to the forest,” said Chingatayi. “It was midnight, a lot of people came, maybe 50, lots of youths, and two had guns. They put fire and broke everything and they took all our property.”
On Sunday, Nelson Chamisa, MDC spokesperson in Harare, sounded desperate when he said there could be 3 000 internal refugees driven out of their homes, and hundreds injured.
| ‘Take my photograph and write my name, I am not afraid’ |
“The punishment for people is terrible.
“We have 800 elected local government councillors now and they are sending in information all the time to our welfare department.
“We believe four people are confirmed dead, killed by Zanu-PF, but we think it could be as many as 10, with many hundred wounded.”
Clever Sinoro, 32, who narrowly lost an election as councillor in a village near Mutoko, north-east of Harare, said: “I am a carpenter, mostly making coffins, which is the best job these days. I joined the MDC at the beginning in 1999.”
He said Zanu-PF bands came on the night of April 14 and shouted, “you support MDC and we are going to kill you because you’re bringing the West back, you are voting for our farms.”
When the mob had beaten people and burned houses, Sinoro crawled and limped through the bush 15km to the nearest bus stop.
There he waited in agony for hours for a ride to Harare and the MDC’s headquarters.
Tafadzwa Chinogure, 32, was beaten along with most of his 40 neighbours in his village near Mudzi, north-east of Harare.
“They took 11 bags of ground nuts – all my ground nuts, all my clothes. They beat my wife, too, and she is in hospital. The children are with the grandmother at home.”
Chinogure said Zanu-PF councillor David Kanjere was there “beating us, he had a gun. And then it was two old men, who said they are war veterans, and Zanu-PF youth”.
One woman in hospital and unable to sit properly as her buttocks have been beaten raw, said: “Take my photograph and write my name, I am not afraid. You must please tell the world the names of the people who tried to kill us.”
Attempts to get comment from senior officials have drawn a blank.