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Ruling party accused of training death squads

    JOHANNESBURG

    Meanwhile, Welshman Ncube, MDC general secretary, claimed on Thursday that death squads had been deployed to eliminate his party’s candidates for next month’s parliamentary elections, news reports said.

    Ncube said his party had first hand information that members of ZANU-PF have been given special paramilitary training at Zimbabwean army headquarters in Harare and were deployed for “Operation Tsuro” - a systematic elimination of MDC candidates.

    Ncube claimed that operatives have been told to kill MDC candidates if they had the opportunity and if they could get away with it. He added that the MDC had known about this operation for some time.

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