"WE URGE CITIZENS TO DEFEND THEMSELVES": NCA

The National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) strongly condemns the Zimbabwe Republic Police's failure to protect suspected opposition supporters across the country that are being targeted and indiscriminately brutalized and tortured for allegedly voting for the MDC.

We further condemn the behavior of some police officers who are taking part in these acts of harassing ordinary citizens in the streets. We hereby highlight to the security services of our motherland their duty: to protect the people of Zimbabwe. The NCA stresses that the police should cease being partisan, and act professionally, refuse to be reduced to a party militia. The Zimbabwean police should start executing their duties so as to protect their mothers, fathers, siblings, sisters and brothers.

The NCA expresses its dismay over reports that some uniformed forces (army and police) have been spotted escorting criminal elements, raising fear and substantiating suspicions that the move is sponsored by the state. We deplore the militarization of the state by the Harare regime. Mugabe has lost elections and is holding on to power through the assistance of the army and the police. Thus we call on security forces to be on the side of the people. The will of the people should be respected.

The NCA in light of the developments in the country implores all Zimbabweans to protect themselves from ZANU-PF hooligans and militia. We urge Zimbabweans to organise themselves in each and every corner of the country and form defense brigades to protect themselves against organised state brutality and detestable elements in our societies. Let the masses of Zimbabwe awaken to the fact that the government is at war with its people, thus the need to protect themselves. Let there be back up squads in suburbs to protect citizens' houses, property and human lives from ZANU-PF malcontents. Youths should organise and patrol their localities during the night to save their mothers, sisters and brothers from ZANU PF vampires’ purporting to be war veterans.

In the wake of Friday's attacks in Warren Park the NCA calls those that go to Pubs for drinking to be organised, vigilant and alert (be ready to react). We urge such to move in groups of six and above. We urge them to defend themselves. When leaving these drinking places we urge people to be in groups. Never walk alone.

Meanwhile the NCA is busy compiling names of alleged perpetrators who in the fullness of time will be summoned to answer at an impartial judiciary system for these gross human rights violations. Anyone who might be having names and/or information leading to the identification of perpetrators of these atrocities can contact any of NCA offices across the country.

There is a possibility of making our independence real.

Bumbiro Ngarinyorwe Nevanhu

National Constitutional Assembly,

NATIONAL SPOKESPERSON
MADOCK CHIVASA