Mukoko Haunted By 2008 Abductions
24 March 2016
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The Zimbabwe Peace director Jestina Mukoko says she is still being haunted by her  2008 abductions.
In December 2008 the ZPP boss was abducted by members of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) for exposing human rights abuses the President Robert Zanu PF militia was perpetrating on MDC-T supporters.
MDC-T claims that over 200 of its supporters were maimed by Zanu PF and its militia in the run up to the controversial June 29 Presidential runoff election.
Mukoko whose organisation was documenting the atrocities  then, was abducted, tortured, denied medication and traumatized for three weeks by the yet to be known assailants.
“The psychological trauma, you carry with you for years .I am one testimony that will tell you that,” Mukoko told Journalists in Harare on Thursday.
“You cannot at times  even live with people within your family, you are so afraid when you hear sounds; if you hear a key turning it makes you go mad .It has taken me years  to be able to say now I think I am getting somewhere”.
“Now I get a lot of people who say you are looking good, I think it is because I have been able to deal with the anger and the pain that I harboured inside,” she said.
“That anger and pain was not going to the people that I thought it was going to, it was coming back to me”.