since the March 29 elections and prosecute those responsible regardless of
position or rank.
•
Ratify the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment; invite the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture to visit
the country.
In the period prior to the presidential runoff
•
To protect those involved in observing and monitoring the presidential runoff,
ensure that police abide by international human rights standards and act to
ensure the safety of election observers, journalists, human rights monitors
and other civil society activists.
•
Allow immediate and unfettered access to electoral observers, human rights
monitors, journalists and civil society activists seeking to report on the
elections to all parts of the country.
•
Allow international human rights monitors and electoral observers to remain
in the country for as long as they deem necessary to fulfill their respective
mandates.
•
Facilitate the safe and voluntary return of all those displaced by the violence
to their homes and ensure that they are able to vote in the runoff.
To the Movement for Democratic Change
•
Condemn all acts of violence by MDC members and supporters and call on
supporters and members to desist from carrying out acts of violence.
To the Southern African Development Community
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Publicly condemn and call for an immediate end to the violence.
•
Publicly demonstrate that SADC disapproves of the abuses taking place and
demand that the government of Zimbabwe restore basic civil and political
rights.
“Bullets for Each of You”
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