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2008 early warning report on politically-motivated human rights & food-related violations
Zimbabwe Peace Project
October 2008

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This Report surveys politically motivated human rights and food-related violations almost two months after the signing of the much celebrated but still-born-threatened power-sharing deal. It is also presented against the background of a ZPP September Early Warning Report in which the nation was alerted of an impending food disaster if the political impasse continues. The October Report also comes at a time when a cholera outbreak which in September was looming in Harare, is reportedly spreading to other provinces, a frightening development indeed given that the education sector is currently in a comatose with most hospitals closed as medical practitioners are reportedly on a go-slow industrial action. In the education sector, public examinations commenced under untenable conditions with school teachers on an indefinite strike while most state universities remain closed due to lack of infrastructure and food supplies.

Meanwhile as ZPP monthly peace-monitoring records show, there has been a cumulative increase in Zimbabwe's human rights violations since January 2008 although monthly average recordings have been decreasing since June 2008. By October, a cumulative total of 21 258 cases had been recorded, suggesting an increase by 2126 from their September 2008 level of 19 992. Of this cumulative total, 205 are murder cases, 50 cases of rape, 472 kidnapping cases, 4291 cases of assault, 11364 cases of harassments, 937 case of MDPs, and 2333 cases of displacements, a profile that indeed underlines that the search for a more peaceful and secure environment in Zimbabwe may remain elusive if extant peace monitoring efforts are not strengthened.

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