How Mugabe's party hounds opponents
Updated on 30 June 2008
Channel 4 News reports on Zanu-PF's brutal campaign of violence against its opponents has not let up.
Zanu-PF opponents have been kidnapped, terrorised and beaten by thugs, away from the wider politics of Robert Mugabe's re-election in Zimbabwe.
At the very moment Mugabe was being sworn back into power, thugs from his Zanu-PF party charged onto the property of Ben Freeth, a white farmer who'd written about the pre-election terror.
They seized Mr Freeth, along with his parents-in-law, both in their seventies, from their farm in Chegutu, west of the capital Harare, before dumping them hours later, battered and terrified.
Since the election we've been documenting the violence meted out to thousands of opposition supporters and activists.
Now our team in Zimbabwe, who can't be identified for their own safety, have been hearing the horrific experience of one white family who dared to speak out.
Viewers may find some scenes highly distressing.
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