SW Radio Africa (London)
Lance Guma
16 May 2008
Human rights group Amnesty International is to send field officers to the Mt Darwin area to investigate the abduction of the elderly parents of exiled MDC official Elliot Pfebve.
On Tuesday Pfebve says he received a message from his brother Fireson, narrating how a Zanu PF mob stormed their Nyakatondo village in the evening and tied up their 79-year old father and 76-year old mother using wire. Along with several other family members they were taken to a torture camp at Nyakatondo Primary School.
By Friday Pfebve, who now lives in the UK, still had no information on their condition or whereabouts because the area has been sealed off by the violent gang. He told Newsreel that Amnesty International had now pledged to help by trying to locate his parents.
Pfebve's brother Ephraim ran away when the village was raided and his whereabouts are also still not known. Of concern are unconfirmed reports that two people have been killed at the Nyakatondo torture camp.
In the run-up to the 2000 parliamentary election, ruling party militants killed Pfebve's brother Matthew, a retired policeman, after they mistook him for Elliot.
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