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NCA on political violence
National Constitutional Assembly (NCA)
September 08, 2011

The National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) is concerned with the recent spates of violence that has swept the city of Harare in the past few days. The ugly scenes of violence witnessed at Parliament on Tuesday and yesterday in Highfields are regrettable despite calls for tolerance by the political leaders.

We note that the escalation of violence is as a result of President Mugabe 's pronouncements that elections will be held next year in March and it seems the political parties are now in campaign mood.

The violence signals instability in our country and must be quelled before it fuels to the levels we saw before the 2008 elections.

We wish to condemn the barbaric acts of violence between political parties and this should stop forthwith. Violence brings misery to our peace loving society and we say a big NO to political violence.

As the NCA, through our 'Act Now Against Political Violence Campaign' we urge all political parties involved in this scourge to unite and to exercise tolerance.

We are however worried about the partisanship of our police force who are only shifting the blame to the MDC while leaving those from ZANU PF.

The NCA urges the police to refrain from this behaviour and instead fight hard to combat this scourge and bringing the perpetrators to book.

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