18.5 The Parties hereby agree: (a) to promote the values and practices of tolerance, respect, non-violence and dialogue as means of resolving political differences; (b) to renounce and desist from the promotion and use of violence, under whatever name called, as a means of attaining political ends; (c) that the Government shall apply the laws of the country fully and impartially in bringing all perpetrators of politically motivated violence to book; (d) that all political parties, other organisations and their leaders shall commit themselves to do everything to stop and prevent all forms of political violence, including by non-State actors and shall consistently appeal to their members to desist from violence; (e) to take all measures necessary to ensure that the structures and institutions they control are not engaged in the perpetration of violence. (f) that all civil society organisations of whatever description whether affiliated to a political party or not shall not promote or advocate for or use violence or any other form of intimidation or coercion to canvass or mobilise for or oppose any political party or to achieve any political end; (g) to work together to ensure the security of all persons and property; (h) to work together to ensure the safety of any displaced persons, their safe return home and their enjoyment of the full protection of the law. (i) to refrain from using abusive language that may incite hostility, political intolerance and ethnic hatred or unfairly undermine each other. The inclusion of this section clearly comes about out of the recognition that violence and the encouragement of violence have been problems, as is also recognised in the Preamble, where it is stated that the Parties are “DETERMINED to build a society free of violence, fear, intimidation, hatred, patronage, corruption and founded on justice, fairness, openness, transparency, dignity and equality ”. This obviously requires that the Zimbabwean security agencies desist from their previous partisan position, and provide the confidence building measures that the GPA demands. However, as was indicated by the quote at the beginning of this report, derived from the recent report issued by the ZRP, it is not evident that the state security agencies can yet be trusted to be independent – this report quite clearly demonstrates the common understanding within Zimbabwe that the ZRP regards itself as an organ of ZANU PF. This is reinforced by the recent violence meted out to WOZA, the NCA, students, the Women’s Coalition, and the residents of Mutare to cite a few egregious examples of the continued use of force against the citizens of Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwe government has tried to offset this adverse publicity through the intemperate accusation that the MDC-T and the Botswana government are collaborating in the training of military personnel for the overthrow of the Zimbabwe regime. Hence the need for an independent, neutral assessment of the violence, and a first step here would be the public release of the report of the South African military mission sent to Zimbabwe earlier this year by the SADC facilitator, President Thabo Mbeki. In the absence of such independent evidence, and against the lack of the kind of confidence building by ZANU PF, expected of the de facto power, the Human Rights Forum issues this second report.