OPPOSITION MDC Alliance vice-president Tendai Biti yesterday described President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government as a “terrorist organisation” and a “bloodthirsty” regime planning to spill the blood of innocent citizens exercising their democratic right to protest. BY MOSES MATENGA Biti told journalists in Harare yesterday ahead of the July 31 protests that Zanu PF was a terrorist organisation responsible for the abduction and murder of thousands of opposition supporters. “We support the rights of citizens who have organised July 31, 2020. We support their constitutional right to embark on a peaceful, constitutional protest against the regime codified in section 59 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe,” he said. “We object to Zanu PF’s attempt to convert the 31st of July into another 1st August 2018. We don’t want bloodshed. We want the Constitution to be adhered to.” The former Finance minister blasted Zanu PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa’s remarks that described the MDC Alliance, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions and the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition as terrorist organisations which were working with Western diplomats to effect regime change in Zimbabwe. “We reject the fascist response by the regime, in particular the remarks made by the deranged Patrick Chinamasa,” Biti said. “A responsible government would have asked for dialogue with the organisers of the events of July 31, 2020, but this regime is unique, this regime is violent, this regime is impervious to logic and objectivity and we have seen a huge clampdown on people including Hopewell Chin’ono, Jacob Ngarivhume and others.” Biti said the MDC Alliance was under siege and that a number of their officials were in hiding, being hounded by the regime. “We are seriously concerned with the human rights situation in the country,” he said. “We are concerned by the continued abductions of our colleagues. As we are speaking this afternoon, we are receiving reports of massive abductions that are taking place throughout the country. “We have colleagues who have been abducted in Chiredzi, in Bulawayo and the length and breadth of the country.” Biti added: “We are concerned about the attacks on the general membership of our movement and the people. We are concerned in particular with concerted effort to liquidate the MDC Alliance. “We take great exception to the description of our party as a terrorist organisation by an individual, a ramshackle individual unqualified to make that statement in the form of Patrick Chinamasa.” Biti said the MDC Alliance was a responsible opposition party that had no intention of “going on hilltops as rebels”. “If anything, it is Zanu PF itself which is a terrorist organisation that abducts people and if you have any doubt about that, talk to Mrs (Sheffra) Dzamara (journalist Itai Dzamara’s wife). “Right now, she doesn’t know where her husband is. Talk to Joanah Mamombe, talk to Cecilia Chimbiri, talk to Netsai Marova, they will provide you with evidence of the brutal and terrorist nature of Zanu PF.” He accused Zanu PF of killing th