By A Correspondent| The ZANU PF terror machine took to levels at the weekend when it carried a propaganda document that contains concocted facts seeking to (convince the African summit delegates in Addis Abbaba) that the January military violence was engineered by a Third Force.

The same content document was used in Switzerland at the Davos summit where as ZimEye reveals, foreign heads of states were told insinuations that there was a Third Force during the Jan protests.

While at Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube’s business breakfast meeting in Zurich, word was sent round under a claim that there was an attempt by western powers to take over the country. It was said that the disquiet over Emmerson Mnangagwa’s fuel price rises was engineered by the West.

Zimbabwe, following Mnangagwa’s new fuel price, now has the most expensive fuel in the world, and in every other country of the world where the fuel price has been raised, civilians have complained- in Germany, motorists parked their cars in protests, and most recently in France street demonstrations were the order.

While at Mthuli Ncube’s meeting on 25th January, ZimEye questioned the logic of the Third Force claim, since in Zimbabwe’s case, it was the military who led the violence right from the start. Evidence was presented and none of the Ambassadors denied the efficacy of live video proof showing how soldiers literally beat civil servants particularly teachers while ordering them to go and join the strike. Even Emmerson Mnangagwa himself has officially updated in a memo saying that soldiers were insubordinate.

Another group of soldiers was unleashed on the civilians who were being pushed by the other to strike in public when from the start the job action was meant to be a mere stay away. In the process at least 17 people were killed amid over 1200 human rights violations and soldiers were recorded on video in several parts of the country forcing their way into people’s houses and torturing them. There are numerous reports of women being raped and several have testified on video that they were sexually violated in their own houses.

Despite all this evidence, the papers prepared by Zanu-PF officials blame opposition parties and “rogue NGOs” for “an orgy of violence” during the protest against fuel price rises. The papers accuse them of following a plan “by hostile elements to subvert the state by rendering the country ungovernable”.

The British Guardian reports that the document was likely produced by Zanu-PF officials for circulation among foreign diplomats at the African Union summit.

It was not clear at the time of writing, if any of the heads of states at the AU summit have bought into the propaganda. – ZimEye will do a follow-up investigation on Sunday.