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By Christopher Mahove |IOL| Members of the Zimbabwe National Army on Sunday night terrorised residents of Hopley in Harare, allegedly indiscriminately beating up people suspected of being opposition MDC-T supporters. Several people were left seriously injured, including the 28-year-old wife of the MDC-T Youth District chairperson for the area and her six-week-old baby. Three of […]
By Tatenda Dewa | Harare Bureau | Human rights defenders have reacted angrily to reports of soldiers assaulting a six week old baby during an early morning raid at Hopley farm, a shanty settlement to the southeast of the capital. A 20-strong group of soldiers went to the settlement early Monday morning and beat up […]
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party warned yesterday that the arson attack on the home of a member of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) — allegedly by ruling Zanu PF supporters — signalled the start of a violent general election campaign.