APRIL2018
HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
murder. The murder case was however entirely of a criminal nature and related to
the shooting of a suspected robber.
See diagram below:
Breakdown of the cases recorded in April by Province
Assault
Coercion
Discrimination
Electoral
malpractice
Hate Speech
Inter-Party
squabble/viol.
Intra-Party
violence
Gen. intimid.
& harassment
cases
BVR intimid.
& harassment
cases
Murder
Unlawful
detention
Byo
Hre
*
*
Manica.
****
*
Mash
Cent.
**
****
*
*
*
*****
**
*
*
*
*****
*****
****
*****
****
Mash
East
Mash
West
*****
*
***
*
**
*
Masv.
Mat
North
Mat
South
*
***
*
****
**
*
***
*
**
**
*
*
*
Midl.
*
*
*
5
20
4
1
*
2
5
*
****
20
*
****
23
*
18
*
1
1
*
3
6
20
19
12
14
8
3
2
13
102
Perpetrators: ZanuPF remained the main culprit, accounting for 60.4 % of the
violations. Its perpetrating agents included the party’s activists, members and
leaders at provincial, district and lower levels; sitting and aspiring councillors; and
sitting and aspiring members of parliament. Of note was the involvement of the
traditional leaders, including chiefs, headmen and village heads, who were
implicated in many cases of coercion, intimidation and harassment in favour of the
ruling party. State agents, primarily Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and Zimbabwe
National Army (ZNA) officers were also implicated mainly in cases of assault. In
two cases, ZNA officers were implicated in public violence to avenge previous
beatings of fellow officers in bar fights. In another case, ZNA officers allegedly
assaulted a private citizen for failing to stop at a roadblock in time. Yet another
case involved the harassment of local fishermen by ZNA officers in Kariba. As
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