Zimbabwe Political Violence Continues Despite Opposition Election Boycott
An opposition official in Manicanland province said ruling party militants raped a woman in the eastern city of Mutare in the presence 
Sources in Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change said a group of about 10 soldiers bearing arms attacked the rural home of MDC Organizing Secretary Elias Mudzuri, who is a member ofparliament-elect, beating his 80-year-old father and other family members. Seven people were takento a Harare hospital for treatment following the episode. The sources said the soldiers burned a truck and looted propertyseizing some Z$75 billion in cash. They said it was the second attack on Mudzuri’srural homestead in two weeks. Hisyounger brother, Anthony Mudzuri, told reporter Jonga Kandemiiri of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe that the soldiers fired more than 50 shots, wounding a young boy. Elsewhere,opposition spokesman Pishai Muchauraya of Manicaland province said ZANU-PF militia abducted 32 people in the province on Tuesday alone. Muchauraya said five ZANU-PF activistsraped a woman from the Mutare Central constituency in the presence of her husband beforeabducting both of them. Asource in Chiredzi, Masvingo province, said suspected security agents shot and killed fouropposition youths and seriously injured another on Monday. AVOA listener in Mhondoro, Mashonaland West province, said opposition supporters were beingwoken up at dawn and thrown into rivers for their political affiliation. Alistener named Chamunorwa said he fears for their lives as some of the rivers arecrocodile infested. Alistener in Banket, also on Mashonaland West, said thousands of people from farms in the area were forced onto tractors to attend a ruling party rally held inthe area Tuesday.