Chikombo is believed to have sent to foreign media images of
police brutality against supporters of the
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. Chikombo's body was discovered a few days later. The murder sparked an outcry from international media and the
International Federation of Journalists. The murderers were not identified, but foreign media linked the killing to an "escalation of the government's campaign of violence and intimidation". Chikombo's death in 2007 foreshadowed the killings of over eighty MDC supporters during the
Zimbabwean presidential election in 2008 - including
Gibson Nyandoro and
Tonderai Ndira. ==See also==