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CSO representatives meet facilitation team
Crisis
in Zimbabwe Coalition
August 11, 2011
Civil society
representatives from Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, Zimbabwe
Elections Support Network (ZESN), National
Association of Non-Governmental Organisation (NANGO) and Women's
Coalition met with the South African Facilitation team today,
11 August 2011, to enable the civil society position of the elections
roadmap ahead pf the 31st Ordinary SADC Summit of Heads of State
and Government scheduled to take place from the 16th to the 18th
of August 2011 in Luanda, Angola.
The following
concerns, which will be raised at the SADC summit, were raised before
the Facilitation team by CSO representatives:
- The impact
of political violence on women.
- The selective
application of the law which has resulted in the continued, arbitrary
arrests of members of the Movement for Democratic change and civil
society players while perpetrators of politically motivated violence
and intimidation from ZANU PF are granted impunity. Of particular
note was the arrest of Restoration
of Human Rights (ROHR) activists on the 29th of July 2011
for staging a peaceful demonstration yet ZANU PF supporter who
disrupted a Parliamentary hearing on the Zimbabwe
Human Rights Commission Bill on the 23rd of July were not
apprehended.
- The partisan
and unprofessional conduct of the security forces who continue
meddling in political and electoral affairs. Emphasis was put
on the deployment of security personnel to communities where they
are accused of intimidating and unleashing violence on any perceived
non-ZANU PF supporters.
- The staffing
of SEC which remains largely composed of ZANU PF sympathisers
who presided over the sham 2008 elections.
- The current
political environment which does not aloe for the holding of free,
fair and credible elections.
During the meeting
the facilitation team was handed a critique of the Electoral
Amendment Bill, Civil Society proposed roadmap to the holding
of elections in Zimbabwe, Women's Coalition roadmap and a
report on security sector reforms entitled, 'The Military
Factor in Zimbabwe's Political and Electoral Affairs'.
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