The latest move by the MDC-T follows a similar move by Zanu PF, which submitted footage of the proceedings during the official opening of parliament by President Robert Mugabe to Mbeki this week. Mugabe was booed and heckled by MDC legislators during the historic event.
Sources in the MDC’s Information Department told Radio VOP Tuesday that the department is finalising the compilation of video clips of the arrest of its MPs by police while entering parliament building as well as the clips of victims of post inter party talks political violence allegedly perpetrated against MDC supporters by Zanu PF youths and supporters, mostly in rural areas.
“The desperate attempt by Zanu PF to portray MDC as not sincere in the talks will not work because we have overwhelming evidence of Zanu PF breaching the talks’ agreement. We are putting all this evidence together so that we can submit the evidence to Mbeki, the African Union and SADC heads of states.
Those who live in glass houses should not thrown stones,” said a highly placed source within the MDC -T’s information department.
Zanu PF this week said it had forwarded to Mbeki and other heads of SADC, footage of some MDC MPs booing and humiliating Mugabe during the official opening of parliament.
The footage, Zanu PF claims, will ‘expose MDC-T’s insincerity to the ongoing talks’. Sources in the MDC-T camp said the MDC leadership would personally deliver the clips to Mbeki and other SADC heads of states during the burial of the late former Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa in Lusaka Wednesday.
When reached for comment the party’s deputy national spokesperson, Thabitha Khumalo said, “We do not expose our strategies to the press. Mind you we are in a struggle and we do not want our enemy to know what we are planning,” she said before switching off her cellphone.
Radio VOP