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Human Rights Violations - Excerpt from Weekly update 2003-15
Media Monitoring
Project Zimbabwe
April 14th - April 20th 2003
While The Herald
(18/4) celebrated Zimbabwe’s escape from criticism at the United
Nations Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva, reports in the
private Press indicated that human rights abuses in the country
were as bad as ever. The Financial Gazette recorded the details
of the latest Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (ZHRF) report on rights
abuses, which included 159 cases of torture and 103 cases of unlawful
arrest in March alone. It also said three people had been killed
since January in politically motivated violence. But one death ZHRF
would not have recorded was reported in The Standard (20/4), of
an MDC activist who had died from wounds allegedly sustained when
the police tortured him and several others. And one of the five
incidents of rights abuses reported in The Daily News during the
week involved the abduction and assault by war veterans of one of
the paper’s drivers (16/4).
The success
in Geneva of the South African sponsored "no-action" resolution
that saved Zimbabwe from a United States and European Union motion
condemning the country’s human rights record gave the government
controlled media an excuse to ignore the evidence of on-going strife
suffered by the country’s civilian population. But it did not explain
why the privately owned Press all ignored South Africa’s defence
of the indefensible and the discreditable outcome of the commission’s
vote.
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