Legal Opinion
Chiminya Tachiona v. Mugabe
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 7, 2002No. 00CIV6666VMJCFPublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
MARRERO, District Judge.
Plaintiffs Adella Chiminya Tachiona, Tapfuma Chiminya Tachiona, Efridah Pfebve, Elliot Pfebve, Evelyn Masaiti and Maria Del Carmen Stevens (collectively, the “Plaintiffs”) commenced the present action against President Robert Mugabe (“Mugabe”) and several other high-ranking government officials of Zimbabwe, as well as against the Zimbabwe National Union-Patriotic Front (the “ZANU-PF” or the “Defendant”), that country’s ruling party. The complaint alleges that the named defendants committed torture, extra-judicial killings and other atrocities that…
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