6 Rwanda. This will be more effective if allied to a strong psychological induction process. The second method also relies upon compliance, and is produced again through exposure to violence: witnessing the torture of others for their political or religious beliefs will produce a strong selfprotection motive, identification with the aggressor, and at the least compliance to the aggressor. However, it is probable that the strongest motive for young men, and occasionally young women, to associate with the militia was community pressure, and some evidence for this comes from the reports on the organised violence and torture by the Human Rights Forum. Analysis of the perpetrators shows a very high proportion of family names amongst the perpetrators; 608 names were given in this report xi. If one sorts through the names given as the worst perpetrators, and leaves in the data only names that match with another, then one is left with a total of 322 names for which one other match can be found. These names can be examined to see whether they have any geographical correspondence; that is, do the names match and do they come from the same area. On the first run – merely examining the data for names that match – the data generated 322 names in total, which was 53% of the total number of serious perpetrators. As can be seen from Table 1, the vast majority of these were ordinary ZanuPF supporters, but the percentage was markedly higher than those observed in previous reports for ZanuPF supporters as a category. Table 1. Matching names only of the most serious perpetrators. (n=322) Category ZanuPF (Supporter) War Veterans CIO Government official MP ZanuPF (Youth) Zimbabwe Prison Service Zimbabwe Republic Police Number 282 9 3 2 5 3 1 17 % 87.5 2.8 0.9 0.6 1.6 0.9 0.3 5.3 The second run – matching names and places – was more interesting, and, as can be seen from Table 2, came up with a list of 108 names that were matched with places. As can be seen, there are changes in both the number of categories and in the constitution of the categories, but ZanuPF supporters remain still the largest grouping by far. It is within this category that militia are likely to be found. Table 2. Matching names and places of the most serious perpetrators. (n=108) Category ZanuPF (Supporter) CIO MP War Veteran ZanuPF (Youth) Zimbabwe Republic Police Number 97 2 2 2 1 4 % 89.9 1.9 1.9 1.9 0.9 3.7 However, it is interesting that there is a match between names, but not between the same person, and places. For example, in Mberengwa, the name “Hove” comes up 9 times, and since it is commonly known that Rugare and Joram Gumbo (both MPs) are also related to the Hove’s, thus we end up with 11 names matching in one area. Staying with the Mberengwa example, we thus have 11 names, with 2 MPs and a former Minister (Richard Hove) who is also a councillor. The Perpetrators of Gross Human Rights Violations in the current violence in Zimbabwe.

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