Desperately Seeking Sanity: What Prospects for a New Beginning in Zimbabwe?
Solidarity Peace Trust
2008, Solidarity Peace Trust:
Thorough compilation of evidence of human rights violations, including enforced disappearances, during the recent election period in Zimbabwe. There are two PDF files. The first PDF file contains a number of pictures that are evidence of violence against people during the election period. The second PDF file does not contain these pictures.
Table of contents:
Abbreviations
Executive Summary
PART I
Overview of political events since 29 March 2008
1. Introduction
2. The Presidential Run-Off Election of 27th June 2008
3. The SADC Mediation and International Pressures
4. Recommendations
PART II:
Political violence: April to June 2008
1. Background
2. Sources
3. Delays and difficulties of trying to access or deliver health care
4. Difficulties and Dangers in trying to access information and offer help
5. Deaths and Enforced Disappearances
6. Impunity for ZANU, Arrests for MDC
The Violence
1. Perpetrators over time
2. Scale and geographical spread of the violence
The Strategy
1. Targeting ZANU strongholds
2. Targeting MDC strongholds
3. Targeting of Leadership and Election Officials
4. “Operation Tsuronegwenzi” – “attack both the hunted and those who shelter them”
5. Operation “How to Vote” and “Red Finger”
The Victims: age, violations, injuries
1. Age of victims
2. Types of violation and resulting injuries
3. Gender based violence
4. Retaliatory violence
Challenges of the Present and the Future1. Putting the genie back into the bottle2. Healing the community fabric
Appendices:
Memorandum of Understanding between ZANU and the two MDCs
Source(s):
| Language | Format | Source |
|---|---|---|
| English | PDF document |  view/download |
| English | PDF document | view/download |