Table 3 Total numbers of times persons in each category identified as a perpetrator Category of Perpetrator Nos. Percentage 26 7 56 3 1 25 Nos. of times mentioned 58 9 88 9 0 150 Member of Parliament Central Intelligence Organisation Zimbabwe Republic Police Zimbabwe National Army Zimbabwe Prison Service Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association ZanuPF PF (Supporter) ZanuPF PF (Youth) ZanuPF PF (Official) Government & local government officials Total: 464 6 8 12 1045 13 7 15 74.9 0.93 0.5 1.08 608 1,394 4.2 0.65 6.31 0.65 0 10.8 Human rights and land disturbances The Zimbabwe Government has asserted, and supported recently by President Thabo Mbeki, that the violence is mainly due to the conflicts over land. Since the land redistribution process has been continuous since February 2000, one would expect to see a continuous number of cases of violence over the period: essentially, a random distribution of reports, and, additionally, a preponderance of reports involving farmers, farm workers, and re-settled people, taking into account seasonable or other local variables. There has been an enormous amount of reporting around the land invasions and a substantial amount of this reporting has focused on human rights violations experienced by farmers and farm workers. However, it is not apparent that these violations were in fact related to land re-distribution and it has been instead 17