4 Table of Contents 1. Methodology of the study 5 2. Background 5 2.1 The Abuja Agreement 9 2.2 Land and violence 11 3. Results 18 3.1 Demographic characteristics of Sample 18 3.2 Human rights violations experienced by farmers and farm workers 20 3.2.1 Violations against farmers and their families 21 3.2.2 Human rights violations experienced by farm workers and their families 22 3.2.3 Comparing violations against farmers and farm workers 22 3.3 23 Perpetrators of human rights violations 3.3.1 Perpetrators of violations against farmers and their families 24 3.3.2 Perpetrators of violations against farm workers and their families 25 3.3.3 Comparing the perpetrators of violations against farmers and farm workers 26 3.4 Resorting to the law and the justice system 27 3.5 Losses experienced by farmers 29 3.6 Losses experienced by farm workers 30 4. Findings 33 5. Conclusions Appendix 37 40 A Preliminary Report on Human Rights Violations on Commercial Farms, 2000 to 2005.

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