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Witnesses say Zimbabwean soldiers are still roaming the streets of the capital and assaulting people, even after the president denounced violence by security forces as \u201cunacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Soldiers in two army trucks appeared to be targeting street vendors as they cruised Harare\u2019s streets at nightfall.<\/p>\n

Human Rights Watch\u2019s southern Africa director Dewa Mavhinga says uniformed soldiers have injured many people and there is \u201cno reason for the wanton attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Emmerson Mnangagwa cut short an overseas visit amid growing accounts of violence by soldiers, police and ruling party youth gangs in a crackdown on protests against a dramatic fuel price increase.<\/p>\n

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The ongoing assaults raise questions about the influence the president has to rein in the military\u2019s use of force.<\/p>\n

Human Rights Watch says \u201cthe mask has now been taken off the Mnangagwa government\u201d in Zimbabwe after hundreds of people were wounded or arrested in a crackdown on protests and at least 12 were killed.<\/p>\n

Southern Africa director Dewa Mavhinga told reporters in Johannesburg that the military opened fire on crowds, killing bystanders as well as protesters, and wounding others. Security forces have gone house-to-house in Harare, Bulawayo and other cities, beating and torturing men.<\/p>\n

He calls the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa the same as that of longtime leader Robert Mugabe but with \u201can even more brazen system in charge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mavhinga says the shootings in broad daylight and the shutdown of the internet are extreme and unprecedented.<\/p>\n

He urges Zimbabwe\u2019s neighbors to pressure it to stop abuses, especially South Africa, the 16-nation Southern Africa Development Community and the African Union.<\/p>\n

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