http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/10/zimbabwe1
'Vote Mugabe or you die'. Inside Zimbabwe, the backlash begins
President's men launch campaign of violence and intimidation against
MDC supporters
* Chris McGreal in Mutoko
* The Guardian,
* Thursday April 10 2008
An election poster with a portrait of president Robert Mugabe in
Harare, Zimbabwe. Photograph: Mujahid Safodien/AP
The patients at Louisa Guidotti hospital said there were eight men,
one carrying a shotgun, another with an AK-47, others with pistols,
and they went from bed to bed forcing out anyone who could walk.
Nurses were dragged away from the sick. Motorists driving by the
hospital, 87 miles north-east of Harare, were stopped and taken from
their cars.
About 70 people were gathered in the grounds. Then the lecture began.
"This is your last chance," said one of the armed men. "You messed up
when you voted. Next time you vote you must get it right or you will
die."