Zimbabue: El Tribunal Superior ordena que la policia encuentre a Mukoko

La abogado de derechos humanos Beatrice Mtetwa dijo que la Juez del Tribunal Superior Anne-Marie Gowora había ordenado a la policía que se haga publicidad en los medios de comunicación y busque a Mukoko en aquellas áreas sobre las que la policía tenga jurisdicción. Continúe leyendo esta noticia en inglés.

Mukoko was seized at gunpoint from her home in the dormitory town of Norton, 40km west of Harare by about 15 plainclothes men who were driving an unmarked vehicle.

After Tuesday’s court hearing, Mtetwa said the police had been lackadaisical about Mukoko’s disappearance.

“It was hard to believe given that they have not gone to her home to record how she was abducted,” she said.

The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights made an urgent application to the court.

Mukoko, a former broadcaster, was now working for the Zimbabwe Peace Project, a human rights group. She was involved in documenting rampant cases of human rights abuses by the Zimbabwe government. Her two workmates at the Zimbabwe Peace Project were abducted from their workplace Monday.

The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said Gandhi Mudzingwa, the former personal assistant to MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, was also abducted Monday.

“He was abducted by nine gunmen in six vehicles … and he has not been found,” Nelson Chamisa said in a statement.

Six weeks ago a group of 15 MDC activists were taken from their homes 40 kilometres north of Harare. They have not been heard of since.

“It’s going to get worse,” said Welshman Ncube, secretary-general of the smaller Mutambara faction of the MDC. “As long as there is a political stalemate Zanu-PF will move into default mode and use the only weapon it has left which is violence and coercion.

“It is in their nature. Killings, abductions and arrests are how they conduct political struggle.”

Zimbabwe has had no Cabinet since the March presidential election that started the current political impasse.

Zimbabwe is mired in a political and humanitarian and economic crisis. A cholera outbreak that has killed close to 600 people since August and an inflation rate of 231 million percent and rising - the world’s highest.

A deal on a national unity government has stalled after Tsvangirai’s MDC accused President Robert Mugabe of violating their September agreement by keeping all key ministries - such as home affairs, local government, foreign affairs, finance and defense - for his own party.

Mugabe, who has been under pressure from world leaders, has threatened to go ahead and appoint a Cabinet if the MDC continued to reject the deal.

Tsvangirai won the most votes in the March election, but not enough to avoid a runoff, according to the government’s official count.

He withdrew from the June 27 runoff days before the vote, saying Mugabe’s supporters had waged a campaign of violence and intimidation against opposition supporters."

(Fuente: The Zimbabwe Times Court Orders Police to Find Mukoko)