From: "chirunga mutizwa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: THE MDC YOUTH HOOLIGALISM CONTINUES
Reading articles on Tsvangirai and his MDC somehow fill me with a feeling of
deja vous as I recall the same type of behavior by his friend Chief
Buthelezi of Natal and his youth brigade who terrorized his own people he
suspected to be members of the ANC with the help of ...of all people...the
white Apartheid SA Police and Army! What a shame! This just goes on to
show that Africans will never learn from their past mistakes when it comes
to wresting political power. You would think that Tsvangirai would be
beyond such low down dirty tactics! However, we all know that power, or the
search for power, corrupts and makes one lose one's mind. Where was
Tsvangirai during the "Chimuranga" years? How soon we forget! Now he is
eating from the same table with the very whites who sought to annihilate all
the Africans in Zimbabwe! Shame on you Tsvangirai and your band of unruly
and ill-advised youths! History will remember you!
M'tizwa.
Mulindwa Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tsvangirai demands probe as his youths attack buses
MDC leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday accused the Government of
sanctioning the torture of his party's members by police, while opposition
youths were simultaneously stoning mourners on their way from burying a
Zanu-PF supporter killed in a petrol-bomb attack perpetrated by suspected
MDC hooligans.
Mr Tsvangirai demanded an independent judicial investigation into a tide of
violence he said had led to some 30 political murders in the country between
January and November 2002.
"Our leaders are arrested, often on trumped-up charges, in order to torture
them," Mr Tsvangirai told a news conference.
"A number of MDC party functionaries have been tortured and subsequently
died as a result."
Mr Tsvangirai said yesterday the team set up by the police to investigate
allegations of the torture of MDC MP for St Mary's Mr Job Sikhala was just a
cover-up of other serious torture crimes by the country's security agents.
"Some members of our partisan police have become a major part of the
deteriorating security problem in this country. They are openly brutalising
their brothers and sisters in the defence of a collapsing regime," said Mr
Tsvangirai.
He said his party was appealing to the international community, including
the US, to send a team to investigate crimes against humanity that he said
were rampant in the country.
Mr Sikhala was recently arrested after being found in possession of
documents linking him to the burning of a Zupco bus by suspected MDC
activists in Highfield.
The bomb attack came as the campaign in the Kuwadzana parliamentary
by-election heats up.
Last year, several MDC officials were arrested in connection with the murder
of a Zanu-PF official, Cde Ali Khan Manjengwa, who was shot dead in Mbare.
The MDC leader last week told diplomats accredited to Zimbabwe that his
party had reached a stage whereby it could no longer counsel patience on
"such a restive population" and threatened a bloodbath in the country.
"There is clearly a red light flashing for the Mugabe regime to stop. There
is a gathering storm of the people's anger. We have no power to stop it and
we refuse to take responsibility for whatever transpires."
While Mr Tsvangirai was crying foul over the alleged torture of his party's
MP yesterday, suspected opposition supporters were attacking a convoy of
Zupco buses in Kuwadzana carrying Zanu-PF supporters from the burial of
their colleague Cde Tonderai Mangwiro.
One of the three Zupco buses attacked yesterday had its windows shattered
but no one was injured.
Yesterday's incident happened around 4 pm at Kuwadzana 4 shops when
suspected MDC youths started throwing stones at three buses carrying
mourners coming from Granville cemetery.
When Zanu-PF youths disembarked from the buses the stone throwing youths
disappeared into the suburb.
Cde David Mutasa the Zanu-PF candidate for the Kuwadzana constituency
deplored the attack, saying it was uncalled for.
"It's sheer madness on part of the MDC to attack a funeral procession coming
from a burial," he said.
Cde Mangwiro was buried at Granville cemetery at a ceremony attended by top
Zanu-PF officials and hundreds of party supporters.
In a graveside speech, Zanu-PF national youth secretary Cde Absolom
Sikhosana said it was sad to note that some parents were teaching their
children to be murderers.
"It's unfortunate that some parents are singing praise songs for their
children committing treacherous crimes like the one that befell our youths
in Kuwadzana," he said.
He said it was now time for Zimbabweans to unite and shun being used to
destroy the country by foreign powers.
Cde Mutasa said the death of Cde Mangwiro was a testimony of MDC's
realisation that it has lost the race.
"What they are doing now in Kuwadzana is exactly what they did in Insiza
where their terror campaign failed to bring them victory during polls," he
said.
He said a victory in Kuwadzana would herald the ruling party's supremacy in
urban areas.
Cde Mangwiro died last week when scores of MDC supporters petrol bombed
Zanu-PF offices in Kuwadzana.
Several other supporters were injured during the attack.
The Kuwadzana seat fell vacant after the death of Learnmore Jongwe in
October last year in remand prison awaiting trial for stabbing his wife
eight times with a kitchen knife before leaving her for dead.
Cde David Mutasa will lock horns with Mr Nelson Chamisa of MDC and Kempton
Chiwewete of the National Alliance for Good Governance.
Dates for the election are yet to be announced.
The Mulindwas communication group
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