Computers, recording and editing equipment, files and furniture were destroyed at the Voice of the People offices in Harare's Milton Park suburb. Most of the roof of the converted suburban home collapsed. No one was in the building at the time of the attack around 1:00 a.m. (2300 GMT) and there were no injuries. The independent human rights group Amani Trust, meanwhile, said police raided its office in downtown Harare later Thursday, detaining one official for questioning. The trust, a research and care group for the victims of political violence and torture, said Dr. Frances Lovemore, a medical specialist in violence trauma, was taken by police for questioning at the main Harare police station.
Central Intelligence Organization agents took away documents compiled by the trust on political violence that has left nearly 200 people dead in the past two years, most of them opposition supporters. State television, in its nightly news, said the government dismissed reports, evidently attributed to Lovemore, that girls and women were being sexually abused by ruling party militants and members of the state National Youth Service in rural camps. ***