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Death of a whistle-blower

http://www.zimbabwetoday.co.uk/2008/10/death-of-a-whis.html

Excerpt:

Mushangwe first incurred Mugabe's wrath when, 10 days before the poll, he claimed that postal votes issued to police officers and other militia members were being used to rig the election in favour of Zanu-PF.

My source told me: "Zanu-PF wanted all police officers, including trainees and recruits, to be given postal ballots. Mushangwe said that postal ballots should only be issued to police officers on duty on election day."

Mushangwe later announced publicly that ZEC had printed 600,000 postal ballot forms, when less than 10,000 were actually required. He also revealed that some 9 million normal ballot papers had been printed, for only 5.9 million registered voters.

The release of this evidence of government corruption was enough to seal his fate. He was kidnapped from his home on June 17. On Saturday his body was discovered in Norton, a satellite town to the north-west of Harare.