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{{short description|Zimbabwean journalist}}
{{infobox person
|name=Edward Chikombo
|birth_date=1942 or 1943
|death_date=March 2007
|death_cause=[[Homicide]]
|nationality=Zimbabwean
|occupation=Journalist
}}
'''Edward Chikombo''' (born 1942/43,<ref>[http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/08/news/zimbabwe.php "Zimbabwe's government responds with violence"], ''International Herald Tribune'', April 8, 2007</ref> murdered in March 2007) was a [[Zimbabwe]]an journalist, who, until 2002, worked as a [[cameraman]] for the [[Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation]] (ZBC).<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-07-fg-briefs7.1-story.html "Journalist's death probed as murder"], ''Los Angeles Times'', April 7, 2007</ref> He was murdered in late March 2007.

==Background==
Chikombo is believed to have sent to foreign media images of [[police brutality]] against supporters of the [[Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai|Movement for Democratic Change]] (MDC), including images of Opposition leader [[Morgan Tsvangirai]] lying in hospital after one such beating on 11 March. On 29 March Chikombo was abducted from his home. According to ''[[The Independent]]'',
:His captors drove a silver pick-up truck of the same make used in numerous similar abductions during a sustained three-week terror campaign targeting government opponents.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080415011504/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/zimbabwe-journalist-murdered-over-leaked-tsvangirai-pictures-443267.html "Zimbabwe journalist murdered 'over leaked Tsvangirai pictures'"], ''The Independent'', April 4, 2007</ref>

Chikombo's body was discovered a few days later.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/world/africa/08zimbabwe.html?pagewanted=print "In Zimbabwe, Mugabe Critics Face Beatings"], ''New York Times'', April 8, 2007</ref>

The murder sparked an outcry from international media<ref>[http://www.wan-press.org/print.php3?id_article=14300 "La presse mondiale, réunie au Cap, condamne la répression au Zimbabwe"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212072816/http://www.wan-press.org/print.php3?id_article=14300 |date=2012-02-12 }}, World Association of Newspapers, June 5, 2007</ref> and the [[International Federation of Journalists]].<ref>[http://www.ifj.org/en/articles/ifj-condemns-callous-murder-of-journalist-in-zimbabwe- "IFJ Condemns Callous Murder of Journalist in Zimbabwe"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610155133/http://www.ifj.org/en/articles/ifj-condemns-callous-murder-of-journalist-in-zimbabwe- |date=2011-06-10 }}, International Federation of Journalists, April 5, 2007</ref> The murderers were not identified, but foreign media linked the killing to an "escalation of the government's campaign of violence and intimidation".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080415011504/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/zimbabwe-journalist-murdered-over-leaked-tsvangirai-pictures-443267.html "Zimbabwe journalist murdered 'over leaked Tsvangirai pictures'"], ''The Independent'', April 4, 2007</ref> Chikombo's death in 2007 foreshadowed the killings of over eighty MDC supporters during the [[Zimbabwean presidential election, 2008|Zimbabwean presidential election in 2008]]<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7478757.stm "UN 'regrets' Zimbabwe election"], BBC, June 28, 2008</ref> - including [[Gibson Nyandoro]] and [[Tonderai Ndira]].

==See also==
*[[List of solved missing person cases: post-2000|List of solved missing person cases]]

==References==
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chikombo, Edward}}
[[Category:1940s births]]
[[Category:2007 deaths]]
[[Category:2007 murders in Zimbabwe]]
[[Category:Assassinated Zimbabwean people]]
[[Category:Assassinated dissidents]]
[[Category:Extrajudicial killings in Zimbabwe]]
[[Category:Formerly missing people]]
[[Category:Kidnapped Zimbabwean people]]
[[Category:Kidnappings in Zimbabwe]]
[[Category:Victims of human rights abuses]]
[[Category:Zimbabwean murder victims]]

Edward Chikombo - Revision history

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