Operation Mavhoterapapi ( en, Operation Where You Put Your X), was a large scale

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an government campaign to punish those who supposedly voted for the

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in the 2008 presidential election rather than for ZANU-PF. However, the campaign met with harsh condemnation from Zimbabwean opposition parties, church groups,

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s, and the wider

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