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01HARARE655 2001-02-06 16:26 2011-08-30 01:44 CONFIDENTIAL Embassy Harare
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061626Z Feb 01


                           CONFIDENTIAL     PTQ6762

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ACTION AF-00    

INFO  LOG-00   NP-00    AID-00   AMAD-00  ACQ-00   CIAE-00  INL-00   
      DINT-00  DODE-00  DOTE-00  SRPP-00  DS-00    EB-00    EUR-00   
      FAAE-00  FBIE-00  VC-00    H-01     TEDE-00  INR-00   IO-00    
      LAB-01   L-00     VCE-00   AC-01    NSAE-00  OIC-02   OMB-01   
      OPIC-01  PA-00    PM-00    PRS-00   ACE-00   P-00     SP-00    
      IRM-00   SSO-00   STR-00   TRSE-00  USIE-00  PMB-00   DSCC-00  
      PRM-01   DRL-02   G-00     NFAT-00  SAS-00     /010W
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FM AMEMBASSY HARARE
TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8177
INFO NSC WASHDC IMMEDIATE
SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY
AMEMBASSY NAIROBI
C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 HARARE 000655 
 
SIPDIS 
 
NSC FOR SENIOR AFRICA DIRECTOR JENDAYI FRAZER 
 
LONDON FOR CHARLES GURNEY 
 
PARIS FOR BISA WILLIAMS 
 
NAIROBI FOR TERRY PFLAUMER 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/06/11 
TAGS: PHUM PGOV PINS PINR ZI MDC
SUBJECT: ZIMBABWE GOVERNMENT EXTENDS CRACKDOWN ON 
OPPOSITION 
 
REF: HARARE 558 
 
CLASSIFIED BY CHARGE D'AFFAIRES EARL M. IRVING FOR 
REASONS: 1.5 (B) AND (D). 
 
SUMMARY 
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1.  (C) SINCE FEBRUARY 1, THE GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE 
(GOZ) HAS INTENSIFIED AND EXPANDED THE SCOPE OF ITS 
INTIMIDATION CAMPAIGN IN URBAN AREAS.  IT HAS SENT ARMY 
AND POLICE UNITS INTO TOWNSHIPS NEAR HARARE TO 
INDISCRIMINATELY BEAT PEOPLE IN THEIR HOMES AND PUBLIC 
PLACES.  ON FEBRUARY 3, POLICE SQUASHED A SMALL, BUT 
PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION AGAINST MEDIA ATTACKS WITH 
OVERWHELMING POLICE FORCE.  ON FEBRUARY 4 AND 5 IT BEGAN 
TARGETING PROMINENT MEMBERS OF THE OPPOSITION MDC FOR 
BEATINGS AND ARREST.  THE GOZ'S LEVEL OF INTIMIDATION IS 
NOW HIGHER THAN AT ANY TIME SINCE LAST YEAR'S PRE- 
ELECTION PERIOD.  IF THE GOZ SUCCESSFULLY CLAMPS DOWN ON 
THE OPPOSITION AS A POLITICAL FORCE, OPPOSITION SOURCES 
FEAR EXTREMIST MEMBERS OF THE URBAN POPULACE MAY RESORT 
TO ISOLATED ACTS OF VIOLENCE TO VENT THEIR ANGER.  END 
SUMMARY. 
 
RENEWAL OF INDISCRIMINATE BEATINGS 
---------------------------------- 
 
                       CONFIDENTIAL 
 
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2.  (C) ON THE NIGHT OF FEBRUARY 1, ARMY AND POLICE 
UNITS DESCENDED ON CHITUNGWIZA, THE SPRAWLING TOWNSHIP 
30 KM SOUTH OF HARARE, TO BEAT RESIDENTS, APPARENTLY AT 
RANDOM.  "THE DAILY NEWS" REPORTED THAT SOLDIERS STORMED 
SEVERAL NIGHTCLUBS AND CLUBBED PARTY-GOERS WITH BATONS, 
ACCUSING THEM OF BURNING COPIES OF THE GOVERNMENT- 
INFLUENCED "THE HERALD."  IN ANOTHER INCIDENT, SOLDIERS 
REPORTEDLY RAIDED A RESTAURANT, ORDERED ALL THE PATRONS 
TO THE FLOOR, AND BEAT THEM WITH BATONS FOR 15 MINUTES. 
AN EMBASSY SOURCE CONFIRMED THAT MILITARY, NOT POLICE, 
VEHICLES WERE SEEN ALL OVER CHITUNGWIZA THE NIGHT OF 
FEBRUARY 1.  SOLDIERS RETURNED TO ONE NIGHTCLUB IN THE 
HIGH-DENSITY AREA ON FEBRUARY 4 AND AGAIN BATTERED ITS 
PATRONS, ACCORDING TO THE PRESS.  THE ATTACKS FOLLOWED A 
WEEK OF TENSION AND VIOLENCE INVOLVING VENDORS OF THE 
AFOREMENTIONED RIVAL NEWSPAPERS, WHICH WAS PRECIPITATED 
BY THE BOMBING OF "THE DAILY NEWS" PRINTING PLANT ON 
JANUARY 28 (REFTEL). 
 
PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATIONS BROKEN UP 
--------------------------------- 
 
3.  (U) ON FEBRUARY 2, POLICE USED BATONS AND TEAR GAS 
TO BREAK UP A DOWNTOWN HARARE DEMONSTRATION BY ABOUT 100 
MDC YOUTHS, WHO WERE PROTESTING THE BREAKDOWN OF LAW AND 
ORDER IN THE COUNTRY.  POLICE CHASED AND BEAT UP THE 
DEMONSTRATORS UNTIL THEY DISPERSED, ACCORDING TO PRESS 
REPORTS. 
 
4.  (SBU) THE ZIMBABWE UNION OF JOURNALISTS (ZUJ) MET ON 
THE EVENING OF FEBRUARY 2 TO ORGANIZE A DEMONSTRATION IN 
                       CONFIDENTIAL 
 
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DOWNTOWN HARARE THE NEXT DAY TO PROTEST THE BOMBING OF 
"THE DAILY NEWS" AND OTHER GOVERNMENT ABUSE OF THE 
INDEPENDENT MEDIA.  ZANU-PF SUPPORTERS VISITED THE 
MEETING IN AN ATTEMPT TO INTIMIDATE THE GATHERED 
JOURNALISTS, BUT THEY WERE EVENTUALLY EXPELLED, 
ACCORDING TO AN EMBASSY SOURCE.  EARLY ON FEBRUARY 3, 
BEFORE THE 100 OR SO JOURNALISTS COULD BEGIN THEIR 
DEMONSTRATION IN FRONT OF THE AMBASSADOR HOTEL, ABOUT 
250 RIOT POLICE HAD ALREADY GATHERED AND ORDERED THE 
JOURNALISTS TO DISPERSE.  THE ZUJ LEADERS CALLED OFF THE 
PLANNED DEMONSTRATION, SAYING THEY HAD NO CHANCE AGAINST 
THE POLICE AND WOULD "LIVE TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY," 
ACCORDING TO PRESS REPORTS. 
 
ARMY AND POLICE TARGET MDC LEADERS 
---------------------------------- 
 
4.  (C) "THE DAILY NEWS" REPORTED THAT IN THE EARLY 
MORNING HOURS OF FEBRUARY 5, MEN IN ARMY UNIFORMS BROKE 
INTO THE HOME OF JOB SIKHALA, THE MDC SECRETARY FOR 
SECURITY AND MP FOR ST. MARY'S, AND BEAT HIM SEVERELY. 
SIKHALA'S SISTER AND MAID WERE REPORTEDLY STRUCK WITH 
CHAINS.  SIKHALA MANAGED TO ESCAPE BY HIDING IN AN 
OUTDOOR TOILET.  THE SOLDIERS REPORTEDLY WANTED FROM 
SIKHALA INFORMATION ABOUT THE MDC'S PRESIDENTIAL 
 
                       CONFIDENTIAL 
 
                           CONFIDENTIAL     PTQ6763 
 
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ACTION AF-00 
 
INFO  LOG-00   NP-00    AID-00   AMAD-00  ACQ-00   CIAE-00  INL-00 
      DINT-00  DODE-00  DOTE-00  SRPP-00  DS-00    EB-00    EUR-00 
      FAAE-00  FBIE-00  VC-00    H-01     TEDE-00  INR-00   IO-00 
      LAB-01   L-00     VCE-00   AC-01    NSAE-00  OIC-02   OMB-01 
      OPIC-01  PA-00    PM-00    PRS-00   ACE-00   P-00     SP-00 
      IRM-00   SSO-00   STR-00   TRSE-00  USIE-00  PMB-00   DSCC-00 
      PRM-01   DRL-02   G-00     NFAT-00  SAS-00     /010W 
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O 061626Z FEB 01 
FM AMEMBASSY HARARE 
TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8178 
INFO NSC WASHDC IMMEDIATE 
SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY 
AMEMBASSY NAIROBI 
 
C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 02 OF 02 HARARE 000655 
 
SIPDIS 
 
NSC FOR SENIOR AFRICA DIRECTOR JENDAYI FRAZER 
 
LONDON FOR CHARLES GURNEY 
 
PARIS FOR BISA WILLIAMS 
 
NAIROBI FOR TERRY PFLAUMER 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/06/11 
TAGS: PHUM PGOV PINS PINR ZI MDC
                       CONFIDENTIAL 
 
PAGE 02        HARARE  00655  02 OF 02  061625Z 
SUBJECT: ZIMBABWE GOVERNMENT EXTENDS CRACKDOWN ON 
OPPOSITION 
 
ELECTION STRATEGY.  IN A FEBRUARY 6 MEETING, THE HARARE 
DATT ASKED ARMY AND AIR FORCE OFFICERS ABOUT THE 
MILITARY'S SUPPOSED INVOLVEMENT IN SIKHALA'S BEATING. 
ONE ARMY OFFICER SAID NO SOLDIERS WERE DEPLOYED TO ST. 
MARY'S, BUT ADMITTED THAT THE NATIONAL REACTION FORCE, 
WHICH COMPRISES SOLDIERS AND POLICEMEN, WAS INVOLVED. 
THE OFFICER STRESSED THAT ALL MEMBERS OF THE NRF WEAR 
THE SAME UNIFORM, IMPLYING THAT IT WAS POLICEMEN WHO 
CONDUCTED THE RAID. 
 
5.  (C) ON FEBRUARY 5, POLICE ARRESTED THE MDC'S 
NATIONAL YOUTH CHAIRMAN, NELSON CHAMISA, AND CHARGED HIM 
WITH INCITING VIOLENCE AT RALLIES IN HARARE'S HIGH- 
DENSITY SUBURBS OF GLEN NORAH AND KAMBUZUMA THE PREVIOUS 
WEEK.  CHAMISA WAS BOOKED AT WATERFALLS POLICE STATION, 
BUT WAS LATER TRANSFERRED TO A LOCATION THAT THE POLICE 
REFUSED TO DISCLOSE, MDC SECRETARY-GENERAL WELSHMAN 
NCUBE TOLD US.  NCUBE SAID THAT CHAMISA TOLD HIM THAT HE 
WAS AFRAID WE WOULD BE TAKEN TO GOROMONZI PRISON AND 
TORTURED.  CHAMISA WAS LATER LOCATED AT HARARE CENTRAL 
PRISON AND IS DUE TO APPEAR IN COURT FEBRUARY 7.  WHILE 
ADDRESSING SUPPORTERS IN HARARE ON FEBRUARY 4, CHAMISA 
HAD CRITICIZED THE MILITARY AND POLICE FOR BEATING UP 
INNOCENT PEOPLE IN HARARE'S HIGH-DENSITY SUBURBS THE 
PREVIOUS WEEK. 
 
6.  (C) THE FEBRUARY 6 "THE HERALD" REPORTED THAT POLICE 
ARRESTED MDC VICE-PRESIDENT GIBSON SIBANDA ON FEBRUARY 5 
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FOR INCITING VIOLENCE AT AN MDC RALLY AT BULAWAYO'S 
WHITE CITY STADIUM THE PREVIOUS DAY.  SIBANDA, WHO WAS 
ACCOMPANIED BY LAWYER AND MDC MP DAVID COLTART, WAS 
BRIEFLY QUESTIONED, CHARGED WITH INCITING VIOLENCE, THEN 
RELEASED, WELSHMAN NCUBE TOLD US.  THE POLICE ARE ALSO 
CONSIDERING PRESSING CHARGES AGAINST NCUBE HIMSELF, WHO 
ALSO SPOKE AT THE RALLY.  NCUBE STATED THAT SIBANDA'S 
REMARKS WERE MISQUOTED BY "THE HERALD" AND TWISTED 
AROUND BY THE POLICE.  SIBANDA HAD REALLY STATED THAT 
"WE MUST DEFEND OURSELVES, THAT IT IS RIGHT TO ACT IN 
SELF-DEFENCE," AND THAT "IT'S NOT UNLAWFUL TO HIT (WAR 
VETERANS LEADER) CHENJERAI HUNZVI IF HE HITS YOU FIRST," 
ACCORDING TO NCUBE. 
 
COMMENT 
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7.  (C) THE LEVEL OF GOZ-SPONSORED INTIMIDATION IS NOW 
HIGHER THAN AT ANY TIME SINCE LAST YEAR'S PRE-ELECTION 
PERIOD.  THE SCOPE AND INTENSITY OF THE INTIMIDATION 
CAMPAIGN, AND THE INCREASING INVOLVEMENT OF MILITARY 
UNITS, IS A FLASHING SIGN OF THE GOZ'S GROWING 
DESPERATION--AND DETERMINATION--TO DEFEAT THE MDC.  WE 
ARE HEARING RUMORS THAT MUGABE MAY RESIGN AS EARLY AS 
APRIL THIS YEAR AND CALL A SNAP ELECTION THAT WOULD 
CATCH THE MDC OFF-GUARD.  SUCH A MOVE IS PLAUSIBLE, 
CONSIDERING THE INTENSITY OF THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE 
MDC'S STRONGHOLDS AND THE MDC ITSELF.  A CAMPAIGN OF 
URBAN VIOLENCE WAS THE FINAL STAGE IN THE GOZ'S WAVE OF 
INTIMIDATION IN THE RUN-UP TO LAST YEAR'S PARLIAMENTARY 
ELECTIONS.  IT IS DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE THE GOZ 
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MAINTAINING THIS LEVEL OF VIOLENCE IN THE URBAN AREAS 
WITHOUT RISKING A GREATER BACKLASH FROM URBAN RESIDENTS, 
WHO WILL BE KEY TO ANY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.  HOWEVER, 
IF THE GOZ SUCCESSFULLY CLAMPS DOWN ON THE OPPOSITION 
AND DESTROYS IT AS A POLITICAL FORCE, WHICH APPEARS TO 
BE ITS INTENTION, OUR CONTACTS IN THE OPPOSITION FEAR 
THAT EXTREMIST MEMBERS OF THE OPPOSITION OR URBAN 
POPULACE MAY RESORT TO ISOLATED, RANDOM ACTS OF VIOLENCE 
TO VOICE THEIR ANGER.  WE CANNOT RULE OUT THE KILLING OF 
POLICE OR ARMY OFFICERS, OR EVEN ATTEMPTS ON THE LIVES 
OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, IN THE NEAR- TO MEDIUM-TERM. 
WE DO NOT, HOWEVER, ANTICIPATE THAT FOREIGNERS WILL BE 
THE TARGETS OF THESE ACTS.  END COMMENT. 
 
IRVING 
 
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