Gift Mutsvungunu, an MDC polling agent, found dead
July 11th, 2008
Via an MDC Press Release:
The decomposing body of Gift Mutsvungunu, a polling agent in Kuwadzana East in Harare during the 29th March election who went on missing last week, was discovered in the same suburb yesterday.
His body shows signs of intense torture, his eyes were gouged out and his backside suffered serious burns before his abductors killed him.
There is reasonable suspicion that state security agents killed him, as his injuries are consistent with those of other deceased persons who were abducted and later killed by state security agents who have unleashed terror on MDC activists and polling agents following Zanu PF’s historic defeat on 29 March.
His death brings to 113 the death toll of MDC activists who have been murdered by Zanu PF supporters state security agents since 29 March. He will be buried on Monday at Granville cemetery in Harare.
His relatives say Mutsvungunu went missing on Saturday last week. His decomposing body was found yesterday at a co-operative in Kuwadzana 3. May his soul rest in eternal peace
July 11th, 2008 15:36
I find it absolutely amazing that some influential world leaders will still let these Mugabe goons go on and on and on. Mugabe always has an answer. Now he threatens with another Somalia if sanctions are approved.
Why is he even allowed to open his trap. Sanction his trap for god’s sake!
And so on and on it goes..the talks are doomed for failure, because to Mugabe it’s just a smoke screen, a game. The crisis in Zimbabwe will go on…and on. Just like Groundhog Day.
Somebody wake up the world from this lunatic Mugabe spell and save Zimbabwe!
July 11th, 2008 17:21
Again, shocking news. May gift RIP, and may his, and all the other brave fighters for justice and independence from Zanu-PF repression live on in the memory of a future Zimbabwe once it is rid of Mugabe’s thugs.
The MDC should compile a dossier comprising a list of all those fallen civilian martyrs, with every detail of their sufferings and abductions, and it should send it to State House with copies to the UN,AU,SA, and others,
and update it if there are further atrocities. This way the world and world media will know, and be able to ask at any opportunity, about the ‘List of Death and Tortures’ and continuously be reminded of the deapths of depravity to which the regime is capable.
July 11th, 2008 18:15
Shocking news indeed. I pity the perpetrators. They will be mental wrecks for the rest of their lives.
Remember a zimbazbwean person does not die in vain. The junta should think about this. They will need some earthing, (protection from missiles, muti-style)
This comes in different forms of retributive justice. They must be visiting strong witch doctors themselves if they are not witch doctors themselves.
I used to witness some former war vets who had murdered people during the war. The sight was not pleasing. A person with a mental health problem in Zimbabwe is not institutionalised they live in the street. And we shall see many, and no one will identify or sympathise with them.
July 12th, 2008 08:58
How can any heart not be in pain? When will our country be ours again?
It is hard for me to say, but I’m not sure if I can agree with you anymore Sok. Peaceful ways can only be used with people of conscience, and we are not dealing with people of conscience. What can we do?
To gouge out a person’s eyes because they support another political party – what madness is that? It is unconscionable. It is unforgivable. No matter what these people say – they were forced or coerced – when change comes to Zimbabwe, they MUST be held accountable.
There is no room for those who would not take a stand.
July 12th, 2008 12:15
There is nowhere to hide for such crimes. The International Criminal Court can now indict even a person in office (Sudan President). Therefore Mugabe and other criminals have to count their days. I hope individual countries will continue to take unilitateral decisions on non-engagement with an illegal regime, now that the UN, AU and SADC have failed.