Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association 19.8 23.6 ZanuPF supporter 67.4 63.9 ZanuPF (Youth) 3.7 0.14 ZanuPF (Officials) 0.93 0.14 Movement for Democratic Change [MDC] 0.15 0.28 Government Official 0.46 0.14 Unknown 0.77 3.27 As is seen in Table 2, the number of non-government parties involved is insignificant, and, more importantly for the assertion that the violence has been inter-party, the numbers of the MDC mentioned is wholly insignificant. Hence, the probability - that there should be a non-random pattern of victims and perpetrators, if the human rights violations are part of a systematic campaign – is borne out by the evidence that shows Government officials and supporters as the major perpetrators. As can be seen from Table 3 [over], Government officials – MPs, police, CIO, soldiers, etc - comprise a significant percentage of those mentioned in human rights reports: 13% of all perpetrators, 24% if one includes the war veterans, are identified as perpetrators. 16

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