41.   Many of its reporters were beaten by ruling party militants and arrested by police.

42.   MDC offices were firebombed and ruling party militants randomly beat whites and vendors of independent newspapers.

43.   Meanwhile, Zimbabwean police said they found the body of a leading ruling party militant who had been abducted from his home last week.

44.   More than a dozen independent reporters have been arrested in recent months and some others have been assaulted by ruling party militants.

45.   Mugabe has allowed ruling party militants to occupy hundreds of white-owned farms illegally.

46.   More than a dozen independent reporters have been arrested in recent months and others have been assaulted by ruling party militants.

47.   No arrests of ruling party militants who have led the violent farm occupations, have been made.

48.   No ruling party militants involved in the violent farm occupations have been arrested.

49.   Nkomo made no reference to those attacks, but insisted ruling party militants were the victims of attack by white farmers in the Chinhoyi district.

50.   On Thursday, a correspondent for a South African newspaper who has reported on violence by ruling party militants was ordered expelled from the country.