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.
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