Attacks upon teachers and harassment of health workers
On 18 May a group of war veterans and their supporters and Zanu (PF) supporters, descended on the Chimanimani village in two trucks last Tuesday morning and raided various schools. The beat teachers and some were beaten into unconsciousness. Several teachers were hospitalised and three headmasters went missing initially. The attackers also dragged some teachers from their classrooms, accused them of being MDC supporters and stripped them naked in front of their students. They raided Tiya Primary School and assaulted four school teachers with sticks and whips, accusing them of supporting the MDC. They beat up three schoolteachers at Nyangu secondary and Chimanimani primary schools. The war veterans abducted three of the schoolteachers and detained them at a camp they have established at Charleshood Farm. They beat up these schoolteachers and then later released one of them. A number of teachers initially went missing after this attack.

In May in Mutare health workers reported threats to staff of various sorts.

Beatings, threats and damage to property
On the occasion when the war veterans beat teachers in Chimanimani, they also intimidated many people in the town. Tellers at the bank, workers at electricity supply company, the post office and the telephone company were all threatened and followed when they went home from work. Some were beaten and had their homes ransacked." At the weekend people were told they had to attend a rally for the Zanu (PF

The war veterans also went to Border Timbers estate and lumber mill. After they had beaten several workers and threatened management the company closed down operations for a while. The company has since re-opened. The war veterans also invaded the farm of the MDC parliamentary candidate for Chimanimani, Roy Bennett. In response to death threats, Bennett said he would rather give up his farm than his allegiance to the MDC. But he left Chimanimani with his wife, Heather, after the war veterans had held her hostage for several hours. When finally he was able to return to his once prosperous coffee farm was in a shambles from looting and destruction. Many of his 600 workers have been badly beaten.

Other incidents
These incidents are mostly taken from newspaper reports. Some of the incidents reported include the following:

2 June, Birchenough Bridge
A group of 40 war veterans stormed Devure Ranch, disrupting a donor-funded practical course in integrated production for Agriculture and Extension Services (Agritex), claiming the farm was theirs.

3 June, Mutasa, Bvuma
In Mutasa house of MDC-members were burnt down and at Bvuma some shops and houses were attacked and business people threatened for supporting MDC.

3 June, Bvuma
The MDC candidate for the area, Evelyn Masaiti, was forced to flee to Mutare and could only return protected by security guards.

4 June, Nyanga and Headlands
Five presumed MDC supporters were beaten badly and had to be hospitalised. One homestead was petrol-bombed, and when an eight-year old girl tried to escape she was beaten by the attackers, as was her father who had to be hospitalised.

4 June, Eastern Highlands
18 houses belonging to MDC members were destroyed.

4 June, Mutare
Residents repulsed a group of war veterans trying to terrorize them; war veterans trying to invade a farm whose owner is popular amongst the villagers were forced to retreat thrice by villagers.

4 June, Sakubva
Residents beat up Zanu (PF) supporters trying to force them to join a rally addressed by the Mashonaland East provincial governor Border Gezi.

8 June, Honde Valley:
At least 90 MDC supporters have been left homeless after attacks on their homes by Zanu (PF) supporters, as we reported last week; the MDC candidate for Mutasa, Evelyn Masaiti, says her supporters in the area continue receiving threats of violence.

7 June, Chimanimani
Farm workers were prevented from marching into town by police, when they wanted to demonstrate against unpaid wages promised to them by war veterans when they invaded the farm they are working on.

16 June, Chimanimani
Inspector Patrick Mashayamombe, police chief in Chimanimani, had to take up a junior post in Mutare, after accusations that he sympathized with the MDC; the report has not been confirmed by his superiors.

18 June, Makoni East
War veterans and Zanu (PF) supporters were abducting children from schools for training, forcing them to attend night-long pungwes, mainly from Romsley resettlement area. Some weeks previously a Form 3 pupil was severely beaten up for refusing to attend one of the sessions.

19 June, Buhera
Several persons believed to be MDC supporters were assaulted and had their homes burnt down in Buhera North constituency by a group of war veterans led by Tom Zimucha and Bernard Makuve. In a suspected reprisal, two war veterans had their houses burnt down the following day.

20 June, Nyanga
Mr. Joseph Munondo, the MDC youth chairperson in Ruwange Ward in Nyanga, has again been harassed by Zanu (PF) supporters, after having received death threats earlier, in the presence of Daily News reporters.

20 June, Rusape
A ZUPCO bus conductor, Mr. Olphan Wilson, became indirectly a victim of the ongoing political violence in the country, when he died after nurses at Chikore Clinic refused to open the clinic at night because of the political violence in the area. Mr. Wilson had been stabbed in the neck by a passenger.

24 June, Makoni North
A Catholic priest was assaulted here last Tuesday by Zanu (PF) supporters, allegedly because be accepted a donation from the MDC candidate Mr. Mangoma, to help purchase medicines for the mission hospital.