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iii)
iv)
In the vast majority of `Detentions - Perpetrator unknown', government agencies can be assumed: in 1985 in
particular, many men were taken from their beds at night by men from government vehicles: for one of many
witnessed accounts of such a detention, see page YY . Also included in "Detentions - Perpetrator unknown"
were many named detainees from Chikurubi, who were obviously detained by government agencies, but which
precise agency is not on record.
CIO often acted in conjunction with other agencies, such as PISI, and such cases have been recorded only
under CIO, in order not to inflate apparent numbers of offences. This means other agencies were in fact more
commonly implicated than would appear from the Table alone. The number of offences by the CIO is also
dramatically underestimated in the table, because of the role CIO played at Bhalagwe Camp: both 5 Brigade
and CIO tortured people here, but offences in Bhalagwe have been attributed to 5 Brigade only, again in order
not to inflate apparent numbers of people tortured - those tortured at Bhalagwe by CIO run to hundreds if not
thousands: see Matobo case study and Part Three, III.
v) "Armed men" could be either dissidents or government agencies.
TABLE 2
(i - vii): PERPETRATORS AND TYPE OF OFFENCE, TOTALLED FOR EACH YEAR, 1982 – 1987
YEAR PERPETRATOR X M P T D A R TOTAL
i – 1982 ARMY 13 4 3 2
S:5
By:1
7 35
CIO 6 9 15
ARMED MEN 2 2
DISSIDENTS 16 1 8 3 28
UNKNOWN 3 1 4
1982 TOTALS 32 6 3 8 9 16 10 84
ii - 1983 5 BRIGADE 970 122 464 42 33
S:667
By:5
107
B 8 2 459
G:41
ARMY 39 8 16 8 14
S:23
G:1
1 110
CIO 2 8 3 12 4 29
CID 1 3 4
SUPP UNIT 1 3 3 1 8
ARMED MEN 3 3
DISSIDENTS 11 10 1 1 8 31
UNKNOWN 33 8 3 3 4 6 57
1983 TOTALS 1060 152 496 57 61 761 114 2701
iii - 1984 5 BRIGADE 157 39 59 21 1989 556 10 2 831
ARMY 32 10 8 5 7 14 76
CIO 6 9 1 1 18 3 38
SUPP UNIT 1 1 2 1 2 7
ZRP 2 2 1 1 6
ZANU-PF
YOUTH
15 10 31 56
ARMED MEN 2 2
DISSIDENTS 15 2 1 4 1 23
UNKNOWN 1 7 7 3 18
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