THE ZIMBABWE
PEACE PROJECT
A man (in red) sits with a bottle of sanitizer
next to him as he follows proceedings of a
community dialogue hosted by ZPP in
Mutasa District in September.
Evidence of these four key events in
September is highlighted in this month’s
statistics of human rights violations, where
the army, police, Zanu PF and municipal
police contributed to a combined 74.9
percent of human rights violations.
For seven successive months, state security
agents remain the leading perpetrators of
human rights violations.
Disaggregated, the police contributed the
highest percentage at 31.03, followed by
Zanu PF at 15.61 percent, the army at 13.83
percent and the municipal police at 10.87
percent, while unspecified state agents
contributed to 3.56 percent. The MDC
Alliance contributed 1.58 percent and MDC-T
Khupe was in the same region at 1.19
percent attributable to the conflict between
the two factions. The affiliation of 22.33
percent of the perpetrators was unknown.
Men contributed to the most human rights
violations at 88.98 percent compared to 8.46
percent women.
ZPP recorded five cases of killings , three
cases of attempted murder and three cases
of abduction.
In September, there were 23 cases of assault,
11 incidents of unlawful detention, two cases
of torture and 81 cases of harassment and
intimidation.
ZPP continues to note with great concern
that the large number of the human rights
violations recorded in September and prior
to that are attributable to state affiliated
agents and/or institutions, and this presents
what is an apparent regression of Zimbabwe
into a crisis.