Human Rights Monitoring Report - Kubatana
Human Rights Monitoring Report - Kubatana
Human Rights Monitoring Report - Kubatana
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Victims by affiliation<br />
27%<br />
2%<br />
18%<br />
1%<br />
6%<br />
46%<br />
MDC<br />
Zanu PF<br />
Unknown<br />
Affiliation<br />
State<br />
NGO<br />
Official/activist<br />
Other parties<br />
The reports received by ZPP indicate that the bulk of the victims are members of the opposition MDC (46%). Members of NGOs<br />
or human rights activists are also vulnerable to political violence as the report indicates that 27% of the total numbers of victims<br />
were from the NGOs 18% were persons with no known political affiliation. The current political environment is highly polarized<br />
and those not supporting the ruling party are viewed as ‘enemies of the state’. Only a few of the incidences had persons belonging<br />
to the ruling party as victims (6%).<br />
Table 1: Summary of cases reported to ZPP<br />
Violations<br />
Period<br />
January February March April May June<br />
Displacement 68 19 19 18 24 31<br />
Harassment and<br />
intimidation 498 299 341 337 395 453<br />
Unlawful Detention 19 19 42 27 28 17<br />
Torture 4 4 13 13 6 5<br />
Malicious Damage to<br />
Property 17 4 2 7 6 13<br />
Discrimination - - - - - 34<br />
Arson 6 3 9 3 2 -<br />
Theft/ Looting 17 12 15 11 14 11<br />
Assault 194 155 173 229 176 214<br />
Kidnapping/Abduction 6 5 9 20 17 12<br />
Rape 2 6 4 3 2 1<br />
Murder 1 1 2 1 1 1<br />
832 527 629 669 671 792<br />
Fig 1 showing incidences recorded between January and June 2007<br />
HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS – JANUARY – JUNE 2007<br />
In the period between January and June 2007, the Zimbabwe Peace Project has recorded 4122 incidences of human rights<br />
violations that are in most instances politically motivated. There were 7 murder cases, 18 cases of rape, 34 cases of food aid<br />
discrimination, 69 cases of abduction/kidnapping, 459 cases of torture, 2323 cases of harassment/intimidation, 1141 cases of<br />
assault, 152 cases of unlawful detention and one case of a politically motivated suicide. ZPP has reliable information that those<br />
being abducted are being tortured at a camp in Mazowe.<br />
The majority of the violations are perpetrated against known and suspected members of the opposition parties with the MDC<br />
topping the list, however, there are incidences of human rights violations that are perpetrated mainly by the opposition MDC<br />
against known and suspected supporters of the ruling ZANU PF and other opposition parties. The Zimbabwe Peace Project is also<br />
© ZPP Programmes Dept. June 2007<br />
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