The Director of Community Tolerance and Reconciliation Development (Cotard), Gamuchirai Mukura, recently told a workshop that his organisation was undertaking research to ascertain the actual number of people missing as a result of the political violence.
He said there could be over 1,000 in the Masvingo province alone and so far they have managed to identify about 500 people who are still missing.
Cotard says some of the missing people were abducted by ZANU PF militia who, with the assistance of state apparatus, waged an orgy of violence across the country, which eventually forced MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, to pull out of the presidential runoff.
“We have been compiling the statistics and the exercise is still on. What we
have established in areas we have covered so far are about 500 missing
victims, most of them MDC activists,” Mukura said.
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