Over 30 years in power, President Mugabe and his ZANU (PF) to continue to violate the human rights of Zimbabweans by violence, intimidation and harassment. The report by Human Rights Watch in 2011 in late January has been published, shows that study, despite the “power-sharing agreement Mugabe widespread violations against those who oppose the his regime. The Zimbabwean government of national unity, including the former Opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), has failed to establish during their terms on a new political order that ensure an end to violations of human rights, the country in southern Africa rocked for decades.
The Government of National Unity
The current situation is against the basic principles of the Global Political Agreement (CPA), who believes in the protection of human dignity. After several years of rigged elections, Tsvangirai’s MDC won or fixed the elections in 2008, committed against a background of unprecedented levels of politically motivated violence by youth militias and war veterans requisitioned by Mugabe. The army, police and Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) officers were dispatched killed over 255 innocent people, especially supporters of the MDC. The IOC is a secret police, the Zimbabwe version of the KGB, CIA or M15 in the United Kingdom.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to be followers of Mugabe’s ZANU probably (PF) has retained the election results for weeks, leading to unrest among the population. This created anarchy as a young (Green Bomber) and intimidate the military and went to kill people with impunity, leading to a quasi-civil war. The pressure from the African Community (SADC), the then President Thambo Mbeki from South Africa, the United States and other European countries are forced to accept Mugabe leadership exercised national unity government with his rival Morgan Tsvangirai of the MDC.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), a working paper for the formation of the new government signed 21st July 2008 stressed the need for all parties to preserve the dignity and human rights of all citizens irrespective of their political and religious beliefs. The preamble expresses the PE determination of the parties concerned “to a society free from violence, fear, intimidation, hatred, favoritism and based on justice, fairness, transparency, dignity and equality to build.” The document adds: “The parties are of offensive language , the hostility, political intolerance and racial hatred or undermine each other can request to be omitted. “
According to Human Rights Watch, over the years the regime in Zimbabwe through its security apparatus, the army, police and the notorious Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) – a sustained campaign against those who oppose have led government. Human Rights Watch says abuses are significant and include “massacres, tortures, beatings and other abuses by the army, ZANU-PF and government officials against real and / or perceived supporters of the MDC required.
Ordinary people, including journalists and members of civic groups like the Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) were arrested and summarily placed in custody for dissent. In September 2010, for example, were 83 members of WOZA arrested following a peaceful demonstration on the International Day of Peace to mark. The women under the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform), chapter 46, read together with section 2 were calculated (v) the Third Schedule of the Criminal Code – ‘. Criminal nuisance “
The recent attacks against the opposition
Beginning of January 2011, the MDC reported incidents of violence and intimidation of his supporters. The report published on its website, close that the ZANU-PF has fall back “the language of force.” The MDC say the staff of the army, police and militia mounted the people Budiriro, Mbare and Chitungwiza (a suburb south of the capital Harare) for brutal attack ordinary people, destroying houses and arrest of MDC supporters perceived. “
“A local MDC chairman Budiriro, Gash gurur is kidnapped and his whereabouts unknown woman and her son were attacked with iron rods remain and have been admitted to hospital.” The report said the MDC. In Mbare, the report includes district offices have been strengthened to MDC dismissed by ZANU (PF) militia, which broke all the windows, stole three sets of computers and ransacked the office furniture. Given the violence that the MDC, “she says appeal to SADC, the African Union and the international community to urgently adopt measures to protect the people of Zimbabwe.
Amnesty International Zimbabwe
In 2010, an official of Amnesty International called on President Mugabe and Prime Minister Tsvangirai their obligations through the reform of public institutions by the end of human rights violations, to fulfill the guarantee still plague the country under new rules. Harassment of opponents of the Mugabe regime, and politically motivated prosecutions against human rights defenders have continued. Zimbabweans suffer intimidation by ZANU-PF, especially renowned veterans (people who have fought for the year 1980 the country’s independence claim).
According to Erwin van der Borght Director institutions Amnesty International Africa Programme. “State with responsibility for safeguarding the welfare of Zimbabwe to be politicized and charged partisan and are at the forefront of violations of human rights people, he said:” The Office of the Attorney General, the police and army were released to violate human rights in pursuit of a political agenda. “
Investigations by Amnesty International
* Trade Union of Workers Trade Union of the farm workers of plantations (GAPWUZ) were constantly harassed by the police since February after the Secretary-General Gertrude Hambira fled the country fearing for his safety.
* In March Okay Machisa the director of the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association ZimRights was forced to temporarily flee the country after being arrested for his role in coordinating a public exhibition with images of political violence.
ZimRights were awarded in 2011 Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition democracy and governance allocation for the organization for its efforts to promote the protection of human rights in the country. Amnesty International believes that the police deliberately failed to maintain order, and that these cases show a pattern of harassment of institutionalized human rights defenders in Zimbabwe. “This shows that the Zimbabwean authorities have failed to meet its obligations under the Global Political Agreement (CPA) to allow freedom of association and assembly,” said Amnesty International. In 2009, the Secretary General of Amnesty International, Irene Khan met with ministers from both Zanu (PF) and Movement for Democratic Change, during a mission to investigate human rights violations.
At that time, Khan expressed concern about continuing violations of human rights despite the formation of a government of national unity, adding that there is a culture of impunity that has prevailed in Zimbabwe for years without interruption. “The human rights situation in Zimbabwe remains precarious and the economic and social conditions are desperate,” she said. Human Rights Watch claimed that the South African government to deepen its engagement with the power-sharing government for the protection of human rights, but not guaranteed to improve the human rights significantly.
Since the founding of the national unity government, there were divisions and disputes between the two major parties in politics, especially the need to respect human rights.
The relationship became so unbearable that the two parties, the MDC and ZANU (PF) were for early elections this year. In a statement published on its website, “inevitable elections” with the title, the ZANU-PF claims that there are serious political differences within the fragile coalition – which Mugabe has compared to water and oil – and should go to Zimbabwe elections if the Government of two five-year term ends in February.
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