Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF Tops Human Rights Violations As Zimbabwe Records 145 Cases in April Alone

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The ruling Zanu PF party has been found complicit in human rights violations across Zimbabwe amid an escalation in harassment, intimidation and extra-judicial killings of citizens.

According to the latest Zimbabwe Peace Project report, the human rights watchdog says it documented 145 violations of human rights, which included harassment and intimidation, violations against equality, and non-discrimination, abduction, arbitrary eviction, extra-judicial killing, unlawful detention, theft, and assault.

Matabeleland South provinces each recorded four violations while Matabeleland North recorded three human rights violations. Still in Mashonaland West, at Baguta Farm Compound in Chinhoyi, two security guards shot and killed a man while trying to disperse a crowd that had gathered in an attempt to scrounge for left over maize cobs in the fields at the farm.

He said,"We wouldn't want you to end up being crippled after being attacked" during his address to Zanu PF supporters in Harare East ahead of the April 27 by elections. "In the month of April, the ZPP recorded incidents where citizens were forced to contribute money, food and other resources towards 18 April"Zanu PF leaders and traditional leaders were at the centre of enforcing the demands. Contributions were demanded in the form of money ranging from USD$1 to USD$5 per individual."

Former Chegutu West legislator Dexter Nduna is said to have threatened the management of Kajombo Mine with unspecified action for employing workers affiliated with the opposition political parties.

 

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