Mugabe's ZANU-PF violence against opposition on the rise says MDC officials
Published: 2013 February 27 01:34:52 (4647 Views)
Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change party has said that violence against its supporters is increasing as political tensions rise before upcoming elections.
The MDC party said an arson attack on the home of an election candidate in eastern Zimbabwe killed the politician's 12-year-old son.
The attack was one of 120 incidents of violence recorded so far this year, said Finance Minister Tendai Biti.
The candidate's house has suffered nine attacks surrounding previous elections and the last violent and disputed elections in 2008.
The child's burial is to be on Thursday.
Biti said his party was "enraged at the increase in politically motived violence throughout the country" that he blamed on a faction of President Robert Mugabe's party.
Biti accused Mugabe's Zanu-PF party of attempting to once again instil fear in the electorate.
"Zanu-PF intends to harvest fear in the 2013 elections," he said.
He also alleged that Mugabe's security services have crafted a strategy of intimidation, arrests and possible assassination attempts against leaders of the former opposition in a shaky coalition government with Mugabe.
Voters go to the polls 16 March in a referendum on a new constitution, followed by parliamentary and presidential elections slated around July to end the coalition brokered by regional mediators after the troubled 2008 vote.
- News24
The MDC party said an arson attack on the home of an election candidate in eastern Zimbabwe killed the politician's 12-year-old son.
The attack was one of 120 incidents of violence recorded so far this year, said Finance Minister Tendai Biti.
The candidate's house has suffered nine attacks surrounding previous elections and the last violent and disputed elections in 2008.
The child's burial is to be on Thursday.
Biti said his party was "enraged at the increase in politically motived violence throughout the country" that he blamed on a faction of President Robert Mugabe's party.
Biti accused Mugabe's Zanu-PF party of attempting to once again instil fear in the electorate.
"Zanu-PF intends to harvest fear in the 2013 elections," he said.
He also alleged that Mugabe's security services have crafted a strategy of intimidation, arrests and possible assassination attempts against leaders of the former opposition in a shaky coalition government with Mugabe.
Voters go to the polls 16 March in a referendum on a new constitution, followed by parliamentary and presidential elections slated around July to end the coalition brokered by regional mediators after the troubled 2008 vote.
- News24
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