(CNN) -- The 23-year-old woman in Harare, Zimbabwe, said she could talk, but only briefly. It was 3:30 p.m. there and she had to be home before the 6 p.m. curfew, she said. Movement for Democratic Change official Fredrick Shaba is treated for stab wounds after an attack last week. "I should be home in an hour, hour and a half. If I'm not home by then, it means trouble," she said Tuesday. Zimbabweans are accustomed to violence, but the beatings and bloodshed have been epidemic since early April, days after opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai pushed longtime President Robert Mugabe into a runoff election for the nation's top post.
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Journalist says he's seen "people having their hands chopped off, fingers broken"
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U.N. says scores killed, thousands beaten in "campaign of violence"
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Harare woman: ZANU-PF "will mess you up big time" if you're pro-opposition
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Loaf of bread about 550 million Z-dollars, or up to 10 billion Z-dollars on black market
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