23 Table 7 Comparison of violations for farmers and farm workers. Farmers Farm workers Abduction Assault Death Threat Denial of food Disappearance Displacement Forced attendance at Zanu(PF) meetings Forced to join Zanu(PF) Held hostage Intimidation of key workers Maiming/killing of pets Maiming/killing of wildlife Murder Political intimidation Rape Torture Unlawful arrest Unlawful detention Youth forced to join Zanu(PF) Total affected: 24[0.5]* 297[5.8]* 289[5.6]* 0 4[0.1] 730[14.1] 704[13.7] 945[18.3]** 131[2.5]* 0 66[1.3]* 441[8.5]* 12[0.2]* 1211[23.5]* 10[0.2]* 230[4.5]* 59[1.1]* 10[0.2] 0 5163 71[0.1] 1938[3.9] 1786[3.6] 5360[10.7]* 45[0.1] 9621[19.3]* 8686[17.4]* 8587[17.2] 204[0.4] 673[1.4]* 0 0 20[0.04] 9788[19.6] 26[0.05] 642[1.3] 233[0.5] 116[0.2] 2363[4.7]* 49,909 *p=0.005; **p=0.05 Farm workers were significantly more likely to have experienced the denial of food, displacement, forced attendance at political meetings, and their youth forced to join the militia. Again, it was unsurprising that key workers, such as foremen, were likely to be intimidated. 3.3 Perpetrators of human rights violations In all the rhetoric that has accompanied the land invasions, a consistent theme has been the taking of land by ‘land hungry’ people, and this has been disputed by commentators and observers. According to the information given by these 184 respondents, the notion of spontaneous land invasions is not strongly supported. As can be seen from Table 8 [over], once again the 3 Mashonaland Provinces show the largest numbers of reported perpetrators, and again the same caveat about sampling must be made. A total of 10,349 perpetrators was reported, but there were not great differences between the numbers of perpetrators reported by farmers and farm workers. A Preliminary Report on Human Rights Violations on Commercial Farms, 2000 to 2005.