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2 MDC MPs Arrested,Councillor murdered

Two newly-elected MDC MPs were arrested on Monday. Heya Shoko and Trevor Saruwaka , who won Bikita West and Mutasa Central respectively.

uzumba1.jpgShoko was picked up by three detectives from the CID and took him away to an undisclosed location. Saruwaka was arrested at a police station and detained,no reasons were given for their arrests.

MDC spokesperson Nelson Chamisa said the arrest of Shoko was part of a plan by the ruling party to intimidate its opponents ahead of the run-off election, the date of which has yet to be announced.

Late today,former Chitungwiza mayor and newly elected Member of Parliament for Chitungwiza South,Misheck Shoko was also picked up by police who accused him of planning to raid a ZANU-PF youth militia base in Seke.

“Zanu-PF has adopted a strategy targeting MDC activists and key players ahead of the run-off,” said Chamisa.

“In any event of violence real or imagined, they accuse the MDC and arrest our people. Yet when Zanu-PF beats up people, the police do not do anything.”

You Never saw Gukurahundi
In another development the MDC councillor Ward Seven in Hwange has been murdered. He becomes the second councillor to be killed after Edith Rusere an MDC councillor from Sadza.

Bhekimpilo Weza, 29 the chairman of Kachechete Ward three in the Hwange West constituency narrated his ordeal, “As threats of attack leaked to us, we decided to sleep away from home.

After some days, we returned only to find footprints in the yard and doors wide open and the houses ransacked,” he says.

When Weza and other MDC supporters heard that the attacks were coming to Victoria Falls and Hwange. They took the rumours seriously and bolted. “I did not look back and I immediately ran away leaving my wife and children behind and I just do not know their fate,” he said scratching the floor with his right foot as tears welled in his eyes.

Weza said they were told even before the elections that they did not see the ‘Gukurahundi ‘ blood spills and now it is their turn to see blood gushing from a human body.

“They said that if they can get rid of MDC leaders first, then the people will listen to them in the impending presidential elections re-run. They have told us that they can’t give away power to the MDC.”

Missing Student Leader found

blessing-vava.jpg(Left,Blessing Vava)Meanwhile missing Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) Spokeman Blessing Vava was found on Saturday afternoon in Banket in Mashonaland West Province. He was kidnapped by suspected war veterans after addressing students at Chinhoyi University of Technology last Wednesday. Vava was picked by war veterans at Chinhoyi University and taken to a place outside Chinhoyi town were he was interrogated about ZINASU activities.

He was tortured while his face was covered. He was then bundled into a car and dumped in Banket where he sought assistance from villagers.

All this is happening as reports say the delegation of six retired generals, appointed by to investigate the violence in Zimbabwe and assess the extent of the army’s role in the country’s politics began giving Mbeki feedback.

The generals were in Zimbabwe in the past week and after a meeting with Mbeki on Monday, a presidential team of religious leaders said the generals, who were part of a larger South African mediation effort in Zimbabwe spoke to victims of violence.
This possibly was to first determine the extent and the role of the Zimbabwean armed forces in the political violence.

At least 200 senior military commanders allegedly had been deployed since early April in charge of clusters of “war veterans”, apparently to co-ordinate a campaign of victimisation against the opposition supporters.

Gerald Harper also contributed to this story,Contact the writers of this story, at : harare@zimbabwemetro.com

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29 comments for “2 MDC MPs Arrested,Councillor murdered”

  1. All my god! what happenened to our country

    Posted by barber | May 12, 2008, 5:23 pm
  2. The picture looks susptious .Look at the end of the bed and you will see how they smeared the blood Somebody did it with their hands .If you look at that mans feet the blood is dry

    Posted by Nhasi | May 12, 2008, 5:37 pm
  3. Holy shit! War Guys

    Posted by CHANGAMIRE DOMBO | May 12, 2008, 5:40 pm
  4. Barber what were you expecting to see?Fresh blood?These poor guys were probably beaten in one of these remote areas and the only thing you are worried about is fresh blood!!What about a little bit of sympathy?This is the type of attitude that has brought our country down “i dont believe this attitude”.Wake up and smell the coffee.

    Posted by widzo | May 12, 2008, 10:28 pm
  5. NHASI… WHOEVER U ARE URI MHATA! HOW CAN U DARE DENY SOMETHING SO OBVIOUS. VANHU VARI KUFA AND U…
    UHH…GET REAL!

    Posted by Zimbabwe | May 12, 2008, 10:56 pm
  6. Mhosva haiori. One day sanity will prevail. Kana vanhu vatadza kutonga Mwari achatonga chete.

    Posted by Kick Them | May 12, 2008, 11:01 pm
  7. Thats a stage play maMDC,its not even worse though. Remember Nyadzonya and Chimoio! No actors in politics.

    Posted by Morgidza Tsvangwa | May 13, 2008, 12:14 am
  8. FUCK MUGABE, FUCK YOU GRACE, FUCK YOU SO CALLED WAR VETS, AND MILITIAS FOR KILLING OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS. YOU ARE ALL MOTHER FUCKERS, UNREASONING PEOPLE. TIME SHALL JUDGE YOU WITHOUT MERCY. ROPA REMUNHU HANDI REHUKU VARUME WE. ITS PAINFUL GUYS TO SEE OUR RELATIVES IN BLOOD BATH.MY MDC LEADERS, WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO WAKE UP? YATOVA HONDO IYI, CANT YOU PERSIVE THIS.

    Posted by mhofu75 | May 13, 2008, 12:37 am
  9. Obscene language and insults to us come as no shock, after all that is what your leaders have installed in your brain Mhofu that is if you have one. Remember when the going gets tough the tough get going. Just two days with no sugar wakuita sendumurwa. Kana mada zvaMorgan you might as well go kuEngland and make merry with them. If the white man is so good to you why impose sunctions on you. Wake up and smell the coffee

    Posted by Morgidza Tsvangwa | May 13, 2008, 1:12 am
  10. tsvangwa or whatever u call ur self. either u are mad, an idiot, stupid and dull or u are just a thief and a killer lyk all ur ZANU brothers and sisters. u tell thats staged coz u havnt lost anyone. there are hundreds oif people out there who lost their relatives to u ZANU thugs. go and tell all those guys that its all staged. u myt as well go to the avenues clinic and tell all the people whom ur friends fryed totured and left for dead thats its all satged. i ask u ryt now to go kumusha and see whats happening there. vanhu makaita sei? do u want to wait untill u loose a very close relative or friend for you to bliv that people are dyn out there. munoshamisa. you talk of nyadzonya a if its only zanu people who died there. why do want to personlise those things. its not bob who 40t tht war. its us the pple who 4ot that wat and its us the [people who are also sayn zvakwana hatichada zvezanu tday.

    Posted by marv | May 13, 2008, 1:28 am
  11. to morgidza
    Wot sunctions are u on about? government ngaibandare zvikwereti zvayo.in any case they are still getting assistance from america and britain cheap propaganda.all they want is for them to go to europe to do their personal shoppings wasting money. ngavaende kueast.zimbabwe got indepence from britain in 1963,u shud refer to smith not britain, verenga history yango mushe. we are not fools. smith declared independence from britain so tell the people the truth to be set free.

    Posted by chipo | May 13, 2008, 1:31 am
  12. THE SUNCTIONS WERE NOT IMPOSED ON ME OR THE MASS. vanhu ve ZANU hamuna kudzidza, those sunctions are targetrd sunctions. they were not meant for me or u unless of coz if u are a zanu thief. those guys were living the lyf. livn as if europe was in their back yard, abuse our money sending their children to expensive sqls abroad so our friends there sto[pe them from going thre and chased those thieves children away. its not the sunctrions that made us plant mambaira and manhanga in chiredzi and triangle were the whites used to plant nzimbe for sugar. now there is no sugar and we say sunctions, when will u people wake up. munondirwadza moyo.

    Posted by marv | May 13, 2008, 1:37 am
  13. During Gukurahundi a certain solder would Bring a gallon with what he said was “Ndebele blood” and address school children saying my gallon is half empty, i need to fill it with more Ndebele blood.

    Whether that was Ndebele blood or not i dont know because i was young then but i remember the face of that man as if it were yesterday, the thing is i see similarities with what is happening now and i am afraid that these people might go unpunished for their crimes, What i suggest is that the names of all these people must be documented and kept somewhere where we can revisit them once we get back to our senses as Zimbabweans.

    People need to konw that someday they will answer for their crimes, Mugabe is an old man surely not matter how long he holds on it cant be long now before we get the justice for the victims. I dont care who commited what crime as long as it is a crime one must pay that way no one feels agrieved at the end of the day.

    document them all

    Posted by Mthwaneqhawe Msimanga | May 13, 2008, 3:51 am
  14. Mhata yamai vako Morgidza Tsvangwa!

    Posted by Nyorovhita! | May 13, 2008, 4:58 am
  15. Nyorovhita!
    Ndozvamajaira maMDC kutuka,kunyomba nekunyepa ndozvauraya nyika ino, chamunoti munogona chisina kuitwa neZanu PF chii, kuchikoro takaenda, minda takapihwa, zvipatara jahwi nefararira,chii chamuchaita kanamotonga. chamungatoita kubisisa masunctions varungu venyu vobhadhara mari damage vakaitwa nemasunctions chete chete! Hapana zvamungazvirove dundundu muchiti tichadayi tigo dayi. Matofo evanhu. hanzi heehe Mugabe Must Go! kupiko pamha.. ehyi ndavakutoda kuteera vakananga mudondo!

    Posted by Morgidza Tsvangwa | May 13, 2008, 5:12 am
  16. Pamhata mhani Morgidza kana usina zvokutaura nyarara

    Posted by widzo | May 13, 2008, 5:39 am
  17. Leaders are to be servants of the people, Mugabe with his more than six known palaces worth hundreds of millions of US DOLLARS is no servant.

    A servant doesn’t let his master starve.

    So, Mugabe must be servant of the foreigners, he is letting them steal Zimbabwe’s natural resources at super low prices (his excuse is that a starving nation can hardly demand high prices!).

    Who is the real friend of the colonists? Mugabe. Acquiring white farmers land is just a trick, a ruse. His masters know that a little sacrifice goes a long way.

    Posted by Jonah A | May 13, 2008, 6:01 am
  18. Morgidza, u are one sick person and tyou need help.
    you talk about going to school, when there is more than 80% unemployment rate. you talk about hospitals when thre are no drugs and a huge brain drain of doctors and nurses. you talk about farms when there has been food shortages in zim for at least the past four years. dont even blame the food shortages coz we are importing maize from zambia and SA who ironicaly share the same whether partens with us. all that you can do is pit the blam on MDC and the WEST. its not the west or mdc that chased away the farmers who were the backborn of our agriculture which also harpened to be the backborne of our economy. you Zanu THUGS need to go hang. you talk about kutukirira., hav u forgoten when ur president BOOT FACE BOB was on national television achitukira SIMBA MAKONI just because he seez things defrently from him. gove us a break,. REMEBER THAT FOR EVRY THING THERE IS A TIME AND YOUR TIME IS NOW UP. ITS NOW CHEMATAMA’S TIME!!!!!

    Posted by marv | May 13, 2008, 6:11 am
  19. Its just hard to believe that this is happening.There is never going to be democracy in Africa if things like this happen. It reminds me of Gukurawundi.I saw thisa happening in 1982 in Kezi. Most of my relatives were murdered this way and thrown into a pit in Bhalagwe near Maphisa. Everyone knows that.Mugabe will never go to Heaven killing his own people like this.I understood but not condoning it when he killed my relatives coz they were Ndebeles but now he is killing his own tribe oh my God what a monster.I have never seen this.Is Mugabe Zimbabwean? Gents i now have doubt.Who was his mother and father in small letters? Was Leon Mugabe his relative? He must go back to where he come from before he wipes out the whole nation. He is about to die so he has nothing to lose.

    Posted by Time for change | May 13, 2008, 6:44 am
  20. MORGIDZA, I’M SORRY TO TELL YOU THAT WE ARE FED UP WITH YOU! PLIZ JUST ACCEPT REALITY AS IT IS!!! NEARLY EVERYDAY WE READ YOUR INSULTS DIRECTED AT TSVANGIRAI, OUR LEADERS AND THE MDC POPULATION AND YET TODAY ZVAIPA BECAUSE THE WORDS ARE COMING FROM SOMEBODY ELSE AND TARGETED AT THOSE YOU LOVE MOST. C’MON!!

    Posted by maxtqalabuso | May 13, 2008, 11:56 am
  21. Morgidza …mwana waBob.

    Posted by Dikembe 'size 12' Mutombo | May 13, 2008, 11:57 am
  22. That picture remains very very suspicious! I will insist that the western propaganda machine is in high gear. These are supposed to be the dispossed, poor peasants - who are lying in blood - look at the very expensive sheets, the idea of a bed is actually a luxuary! I tell you!

    Posted by Mandizvidza | May 13, 2008, 3:35 pm
  23. GUKURAHUNDI THIS , GUKURAHUNDI THAT, THIS THAT THIS THAT, THATS BULLSHIT TO ME , YES OFCOURSE ITS SAD WHEN INNOCENT PEOPLE DIE BUT HOW MANY PEOPLE DIED DURING THE WAR , WHY EXEGERATE THE NUMBERS OF THOSE KILLED? WHY STAGE MANAGE THE POLITICAL VIOLENCE? AND WHY ON EARTH DO YOU KEEP ON TALKING ABOUT THE GUKURAHUNDI SHIT? WHY NOW AND NEVER BEFORE? WHAT ARE THE FACTS ABOUT GUKURAHUNDI? DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY SHONA PEOPLE WERE KILLED BY THEM NDEBELE DISSIDENTS, HOW MANY COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED IF THESE PEOPLE HADN’T BEEN STOPED . I LOST RELATIVES TOO WHEN THE ZIPRA SPONSORED DISSIDENTS WERE MOVING ABOUT KILLING PEOPLE AT WILL. THE HONEST TRUTH ABOUT GUKURAHUNDI HASN’T BEEN TOLD FOR THE BETTERMENT OF ALL ZIMBABWEANS. WHY TRY TO RENEW TRIBAL TENSIONS NOW? JUST BECAUSE YOU WANT MUGABE OUT OF OFFICE, AND THEN WHAT AFTER THAT? MDC IN OFFICE AND A ZIMBABWE DIVIDED BETWEEN SHONA AND NDEBELE’S. MDC SHOULD STOP USING THIS GUKURAHUNDI SHIT TO CAMPAIGN INTO OFFICE, SELL YOUR POLICIES TO THE PEOPLE AND LET PEOPLE VOTE YOU INTO OFFICE BY CONSTITUTIONAL MEANS, I BEG YOU PEOPLE AND I MOVE A MOTION STOP THIS GUKURAHUNDI SHIT BEFORE ITS TO LATE. DO YOU WANT THE TRUTH TO BE TOLD? WE LOST RELATIVES TOO KUNYARARA HAZVIREVI KUTI WE CANT TALK.

    Posted by TSVANGIRAI JUNIOR | May 13, 2008, 4:50 pm
  24. Those who live by the sword die by the sword.

    Posted by Sekuru Jecha | May 13, 2008, 5:24 pm
  25. Look at the rug at the end of the bed.They used that white rug to smear the blood on the head board.Stage play at its best

    Posted by CHANGAMIRE DOMBO | May 13, 2008, 7:20 pm
  26. Tsvangirai Junior
    I for one do not know how many Shona people were killed by the dissidents during that period of insanity. However I am certain, as sure as night follows day, that the number of Shona people killed by the dissidents is no where near the conservative estimates of 20 000 Ndebele dead.
    I would hazard to say that there were fewer Shona made to dig their own graves.
    I would hazard to say that there were fewer Shona people made to attend rallies and chant slogans about a party that they did not support.

    I would hazard to say that there were few Shona women that had their unborn children bayoneted out of their wombs.

    I would hazard to say that there fewer Shona people were rounded up and burnt alive in huts.

    Mugabe had his own commission of inquiry- the Chihambakwe Commission whose findings have never seen the light of day. We can only speculate what the commission found but we can safely say that had the commission found that the dissidents were to blame for most of the atrocities then no doubt Mugabe would have crowed long and loud. The fact that he did not tells its own story.
    There is also the CCJP report “Breaking the Silence” again whose findings were never freely available in Zimbabwe but which can be found on the net. That report states that “80% of all atrocities were committed by the Fith Brigade, 6.5% by the CIO, 4.5% by the army and 2% by the dissidents”

    That you should seek to sweep the issue of Gukurahundi under the carpet on the pretext of not “renewing” tribal tensions is flabbergasting to say the least. This begs the question- did the Gukurahundi carry out the genocide for and on behalf of the Shona people or was Gukurahundi an act of madness by Mugabe and his cabal?
    Until the perpetrators of this genocide are brought to book the genocide will remain a festering sore with the people of Matebeleland. While you bury your head in the sand for fear of creating “tribal tension” that very same tribal tension will abound in an atsmosphere that does not seek to right the wrongs of the past.

    Posted by Jazi | May 14, 2008, 2:24 am
  27. Tsvangirai Jr, Morgodzva,Changamire dombo…………
    Mese muri imbwa dzevanhu, Tendayi kuti handizive kwamunogara, chikwadi chaicho maimama nekurohwa neni. majaira mbavha dzeZANU PF!!!! Majaira kuti vanhu veZimbabwe vanonga vakanyarara Benzi renyu Bob achitukiririra pa national television. Munhu mukuru asinganyare, Kungoenda pane vanhu atukirira, hazvineyi kuti parufu here kana kuti pamuchato, kana muchechi. Even pafuneral yatezvara vake ainguno tukirira. Iwo vanomupa stage yacho vanatwowo. All he does is shout, now i see why,, BECAUSE HE HANGS AROUND MAD, CRAZY LUNIES LIKE YOU!!!! Kana nemiwo vanhu vezimbabwe what do you expect from a pack of wolves besides HOWLING all night long. Chinozosiyana ndechekuti mapere eZanu nemasikati anonga achingo hukura. MURI MHATA MESE VEZANU PF!!!!! INFACT MIDHIDHI YENYU MESE!!!!!!!!! BVUMAYI KUTI NÁNGA YENYU YATADZA MWAKA UNO!! Yafoira. Takukuzivai nedzekuenda kunyanga vanhu veZANU PF!!!, Zimbabwe ine vatendi, vanonamata, Hamukwane pavari. Try all you can BUT you will never win as long aas there are christians in this country. The Lord will Judge,and Muchamama!!!!!

    Posted by First Lady Grace Pamire | May 14, 2008, 2:57 am
  28. First Lady Grace

    you are digrace!!!!!!!!!!!

    Posted by Morgidza Tsvangwa | May 14, 2008, 7:59 am
  29. First Lady Grace

    you are disgrace

    Posted by Morgidza Tsvangwa | May 14, 2008, 8:00 am

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