EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE To show this trend, in November 2020, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), Zanu PF, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA), war veterans, and municipal police, contributed a combined 63.26 percent of all human rights violations. This November, the ZRP, ZNA, Zanu PF, war veterans and other state agents contribute to a staggering nearly 86 percent of all violations and this is a cause for concern considering that the police and the army have a mandate to protect, and not violate citizens. It points to the presence of a police state, where the law and law enforcement agents are used to protect the interests of the few in positions of authority. For the third month Zanu PF leads the list, having contributed to about 54 percent of all the violations and the ZRP follows at 26 percent. Zanu PF, being the ruling party, wields influence in government institutions, including those responsible for state security. So, by having the ruling party and the police leading the list of human rights violators, it is apparent the human rights situation in Zimbabwe has deteriorated to levels where citizens are on their own. The main opposition MDC Alliance contributed to just below four percent of all violations and one case of intra party violence against Zanu PF’s 10 cases. Just as in November 2020, there was a significant use of aid as a political tool as government rolled out its Pfumvudza inputs scheme. ZPP notes that apart from the widespread decline in the volumes of inputs government distributed, there was more discrimination of those When the rights of the individual – even of a few individuals – are suppressed, there cannot be respect for the rights of the people as a whole. The State begins to govern against its citizens, rather than with Torched: A woman in Zvimba lost her two houses and property in a suspected politically motivated arson. (See Executive Summary for details) them…” JOSHUA NKOMO believed to be supporters and sympathisers of the opposition and Zanu PF once again used its influence in central and local government to influence the distribution. For example, on 9 November in Zvimba West in Kanyemba Village Ward 12, suspected Zanu PF activists torched a house belonging to a woman believed to be an opposition political supporter to spite her for receiving Pfumvudza inputs. During the distribution of inputs, Zanu PF activists reportedly threatened the victim, claiming that she was not entitled to government inputs because she did not support the ruling party. It did not take days before suspected arsonists burned her houses, and in the process, she lost farming inputs, clothing and other property. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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