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PRAY FOR HEALING in ZIMBABWE
– through MEDICAL CARE
Posted on April 26, 2008

  1. The DOCTORS at the SECRET MEDICAL CENTRE in Harare, set up especially for victims of Magus’s militia, and the PRIVATE CLINICS across the country

    They are inundated with victims – people suffering from burns, whippings, beatings and wounds received during torture sessions by youth militia and the Central Intelligence Organisation, and women who have been raped by Militias.

  2. The STAFF at the clinics, their skills and physical strength as they work impossible hours to cope with admissions.

  3. The DRIVERS who overcome difficulties to obtain petrol and to drive out to find the victims because ambulances and even private vehicles trying to ferry the wounded from rural areas are turned back by the army or the CIO.

  4. The VILLAGE FAMILIES who are being TERRORISED

    Mutoko, a farming district 70 miles north-east of Harare is now ‘like a war zone.’

    The militia go around in groups of 10 to 20, beating people and threatening to burn down their huts.’

    In another area 45 miles east of the capital, a boy was tied in a sack that was then thrown in a rifer. ‘He died in the bag by the time we got him out,’ his aunt said.

    The young Mugabe party men had been issued Chinese-made AK-47 rifles. ‘They have no ammunition, but they have warned us that they will soon have bullets.’

    FAMILES have fled their villages in the poorest rural areas for the relative safety of MUTARE, 160 miles south-east of Harare, a stronghold of support for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, making it a target for gangs loyal to MR Mugabe.

    About 350 fugitives were camping outside the MDC’s office in this city.

    Many others were in a local hospital.

  5. The CHILDREN who have fled the VIOLENCE

    They are suffering the most.

    At a stroke they have been deprived of their homes and whatever meagre supply of food heir parents had managed to secure amid the poverty of rural Zimbabwe.

    Jessy Sazukwa, only 21 months old and small for her age, was sleeping peacefully in the hospital. The tiny girl’s home on a formerly white-owned farm was burned to the ground by Mugabe party youths this week.

    Malnourished babies have been brought into the hospital after their parents fled the violence. But those who are caring for them are struggling to cope.

    We don’t have any resources in Mutare. I don’t know where the International community or the NGOs are. We have no food or blankets for all those who need feeding.’ Said a hospital worker. ‘There is so little available in Mutare.’

    ‘Some of the babies are clearly malnourished and we are buying them clothes in the market.’

    Funai Sithole, 64, is from the village of Nyanadazi, 60 miles south of Mutare. Struggling to speak, he said that Zanu PF Youths had dragged him from his hut and subjected him to three days of torture. His ordeal was so great that he could not recall the details, no how he had managed to reach the hospital.

    ‘His medical records show that his back is damaged. He is in too much pain and cannot walk.'

    The wave of violence, masterminded by Zanu PF using a national network of Command Centres is designed to guarantee victory of Mr Mugabe if a second round is eventually held.

 

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