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Original Post Date: 2010-09-21 Time: 01:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
By Tichaona Sibanda
The troubled constitutional outreach program degenerated into total chaos over the weekend when 45 meetings were violently disrupted by ZANU PF hired goons in the capital.
As a result the COPAC management committee which is leading the exercise to gather views for a new constitution, suspended indefinitely the program, following the coordinated attacks on MDC supporters and COPAC officials.
Douglas Mwonzora, co-chairperson of COPAC, announced the suspension on Monday. The exercise has only been suspended in Harare, pending investigations to probe the violence.
Our correspondent Simon Muchemwa told us the attacks were clearly premeditated because most of the assailants were bused in from rural areas bordering Harare metropolitan. Most of the trouble makers could be seen loaded in trucks belongings to ZANU PF officials.
‘It is tragic that even during the disturbances when people were being assaulted with logs, iron bars and sticks the police could act only as onlookers,’ Muchemwa said.
In Mbare, the violence left 32 year-old Lucia Kandanga battling for her life at the Avenues clinic after she was hit over the head several times by a thug using an iron bar. MDC-T MP for Mbare, Piniel Denga, told us Kandanga was one of five people admitted to the private clinic following the orgy of violence.
‘They were attacked right in front of the police but no officer dared to intervene or arrest the perpetrators. Out of the five that were ferried to the Avenues only Kandanga still remains in hospital because of the seriousness of her head injuries. The other four were treated and discharged,’ Denga said.
The MDC legislator said the ongoing impression created by the police inaction is that ZANU PF as a party is untouchable and enjoys immunity from the authorities.
For the first time since the exercise began four months ago, there was also a racial dimension when scores of white people were chased away from participating in the constitutional outreach program in most of Harare’s affluent suburbs.
White families in Mount Pleasant bore the brunt of a torrent of abuse by suspected ZANU PF supporters, who chased them away shouting racial slurs.
It has also been revealed that some big shots have had a hand in the violence. In Harare’s South Western high density suburbs, ZANU PF Senator Charles Tawengwa allegedly paid and encouraged his party’s youth members to sow discord.
At Sunningdale 1 Primary, former MDC MP Gabriel Chaibva, who last year defected to ZANU PF, bused in members of the Vapositori sect to the meetings. A participant at the meetings told us the Vapostori members would clap hands after every opinion he gave and only participated where ‘YES’ or ‘No’ was required.
The weekend violence only serves to worsen an already bad outreach campaign that has seen countless meetings being aborted because of the escalation of violence in rural areas.
Rarely does a day go by without the media reporting on intimidation and violence in various parts of the country. Equally unsettling to civil society organisations and NGO’s is the police indifference to this political intimidation and violence.
‘One would be hard pressed to recall whether anybody from ZANU PF has been arrested and charged in connection with the violence or disruptions since the program began four months ago,’ MDC-T MP for Makoni South Pishai Muchauraya said.
Original date published: 20 September 2010
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201009210017.html?viewall=1