Zanu-PF offices bombed

MDC-T Midlands provincial spokesperson Mr James Tsuro dismissed as unfou-nded, allegations that his party was responsible for the bombing of Zanu-PF offices.
“These are unfounded allegations and if the suspects were from the MDC-T party, by now there could have been a number of arrests,” he said.
“There is no reason why MDC-T would bomb empty offices and besides our party is not violence-oriented. There is no point for us to resort to violence when it is a known fact that virtually all the urban dwellers are

MDC-T party supporters. Why would we bomb other political parties’ offices when we have the majority of supporters?”
The level of politically-motivated violence increased during the year with several properties belonging to Zanu-PF officials and supporters being burnt in various similar attacks.

Property and clothes were destroyed at the party’s Joshua Nkomo district offices in Matapi, Mbare in February this year.
No one was injured in the attack, but the bomb destroyed timber worth more than US$600 000.

The attack occurred a few days after Zanu-PF Harare provincial youth chairman Cde Jimu Kunaka was assaulted by suspected MDC-T youths at a food outlet in the city. Other bombs were detonated in Budiriro and Epworth, with the police indicating that MDC-T activists were responsible for the attacks.
The MDC-T was implicated in various politically motivated bombings that targeted police stations ahead of the March 2008 harmonised elections.

According to the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, an MDC-T employee identified as Charles Mutama told US Embassy political officer Audu Besner that the party’s security, intelligence and youth branches planned dynamite and petrol bomb attacks on targets in the country’s five cities.

Mutama, a well-known MDC-T informant to the embassy’s political section was recruited during the 2000 student movement and claimed to have received military training in Uganda.
The attacks increased in March 2007. Among the targets that were petrol bombed were police stations in Unit N, Chitungwiza, Nehanda in Gweru, Marimba in Harare and Sakubva in Mutare.