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Support and solidarity to torture victims
Zimbabwe Exiles Forum (ZEF)
June 26, 2007

Zimbabwe Exiles Forum (ZEF) joins other civil societies and human rights organizations in offering support and solidarity to everyone who has suffered in the past, and those who continue to suffer torture. Numerous cases have been broadcast and documented which expose treatment which is cruel, degrading and inhumane, ranging from assault, attempted murder, unlawful arrest and rape. Many Zimbabweans have been victims of human rights abuses and ZEF has documented numerous cases amounting to cruel, degrading and inhumane punishment or treatment by the Zimbabwean government. Zimbabweans have severely suffered under the tyrannical rule of the present regime and they continue to suffer arbitrary arrests, torture while in detention, attempted murder and assault. Women face a bitter reality of rape at the ZANU PF bases in Zimbabwe, with some being intentionally infected with HIV/AIDS, during such ordeals. It is sad when one ponders and reflects on such cruelty invoked by crimes against humanity being committed not in Zimbabwe alone but in other countries like Sudan, in Darfur. Such treatment on fellow human beings should be condemned and the perpetrators of such atrocities should be brought to justice.

The day is not only a day of sparing a thought for victims of torture worldwide, but it is a day of again drawing the attention of the world to the suffering of torture victims, their families and their communities.

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