As we commemorate this day, gunmen have abducted at least 20 people,
including MDC and civil society activists, whose whereabouts still
remains unknown. Among those who have been missing for over a month
now is a two year-old child.
Other human rights activists, among them the director of the Zimbabwe
Peace Project (ZPP), Jestina Mukoko and two employees of ZPP.
The police have ignored High Court orders to release the victims and the MDC now fears for the lives and safety of its members.
The brutality has cut across all sectors and journalists, MDC activists
and leaders, business people, the church and even ordinary villagers
all have a tale to tell on the brutality and repression that Zanu PF
has visited upon them.
Zanu PF’s history is littered with a grim record of murder, terror and
violent repression. The madness of Gukurahundi,the brutal maiming of
Patrick Kombayi, the violent and bartbaric attack on President
Tsvangirai and other political and civic leaders on 11 March 2007, the
gruesome murder of Gift Tandare, the abductions and subsequent chilling
murders of Tonderai Ndira and others and lately the abductions of
Jestina Mukoko and Gandhi Mudzingwa are telling reminders of Zimbabwe’s
perpetual human rights situation.
Zanu PF does not believe in the rule of law and the inalienable rights
of citizens to freely express themselves. The continued brutality
against the people is against the letter and spirit of the Global
Political Agreement (GPA) signed by the three main political parties on
15 September 2008.
The agreement calls for Zimbabweans to freely express themselves, have
the right to assemble and demonstrate and have free and fair access to
the public media. Zimbabweans are dying of primitive diseases such as
cholera because they cannot have access to clean water. Children are
failing to access basic human rights such as education and health.
The MDC calls upon SADC, the African Union and the broader
international community to respond in solidarity with the people of
Zimbabwe.
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