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*Crackdown On Human Rights Defenders Intensify - Report*

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Amalgamated Rural Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ), president, Obert Masaraure has vowed that teachers will continue fighting for better wages as inflation and de-dollarisation has made salaries worth very little.

Speaking a United Kingdom publication, the Guardian, Masaraure bemoaned the state of hospitals and advised authorities to at least have a shred of shame. Said Masaraure:

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> We remain in the trenches and will continue to fight … We will be on the streets very soon to push the government to address this issue.

> They are celebrating budget surpluses but they are not paying workers, there are no hospital medicines … They should be ashamed of themselves.

Meanwhile, reports of abductions and torture of human rights activists surfaced on Wednesday morning, evoking memories of the Mugabe-era forced disappearances.

Masaraure himself is a victim of abduction and torture by suspected state security agents.

The assailants reportedly have a similar modus operandi, they move in groups of five, they carry assault rifles, use unmarked cars and strike in the dead of the night. Added Masaraure:

> There were 54 people on the floor of one room, with one blanket. The prison [clothes] were full of lice. I got sick with a chest problem.

> … I am afraid one day I will lose my life. I am afraid for my mother, for my family. The trauma is terrible … and the government is reckless, reckless against its own people.

A Harare-based human rights lawyer, Doug Coltart said:

> We can see a buildup now with government ministers normalising the idea that it is OK to deploy the army against protests and use live ammunition.

> By failing to deal with past atrocities, the likelihood of future atrocities is very apparent.

*More: Guardian*

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