18 Time for accountability much needed cash from impoverished communities. For example, most victims of the recent human rights violations from rural areas interviewed by Amnesty International in August 2008 reported being forced to make contributions to feed “war veterans” and ZANU-PF youths at ZANU-PF camps. Those who resisted were often threatened with eviction from their land or other forms of violence by “war veterans”, local party activists and traditional leaders. Lost livelihoods Government policies since 2000, particularly the violent land reform programme and Operation Murambatsvina, significantly reduced the capacity of ordinary Zimbabweans to access food, health and education. Thousands of farm labourers lost their jobs and were not allocated plots under the land reform programme and have no means to pay for their children’s education or their health care. Many remain internally displaced (often referred to as “Mobile and Vulnerable Population” by humanitarian organizations) and have been dependent on humanitarian assistance since 2000. Operation Murambatsvina destroyed many thriving small businesses that had grown in response to the declining formal sector and had been a source of income for many low income households. The informal sector had become the only source of livelihood for Zimbabwe’s large population of unemployed people; Zimbabwe’s unemployment stood at an all-time high of 80 per cent in August 2008, while official inflation jumped from 11 million per cent in June 2008 to 231 million per cent in July. Amnesty International AI Index: AFR 46/028/2008