• Immediately deploy double the number of electoral observers deployed to monitor the March 29 polls to ensure widespread access to all parts of the country. • Ensure that electoral observers remain in the country for as long as necessary after the presidential runoff to help minimize electoral and human rights abuses and to report publicly on those occurring. • Deploy human rights monitors to Zimbabwe to investigate reports or allegations of abuses and report publicly on the findings. • Ensure that the government of Zimbabwe allows freedom of movement and access to human rights monitors and electoral observers around the country. • Insist on full accountability for politically motivated crimes committed in Zimbabwe since March 29 and call for an independent and impartial commission of inquiry into the abuses. To the African Union • Publicly condemn and call for an immediate end to the violence. • Set up a committee of African eminent persons to intervene directly with the government of Zimbabwe and raise the AU’s immediate concerns. • Publicly demonstrate that the AU disapproves of the abuses taking place and demand that the government of Zimbabwe restore basic civil and political rights. • Immediately deploy double the number of electoral observers deployed to monitor the March 29 polls to ensure widespread access to all parts of the country. • Ensure that the government of Zimbabwe allows freedom of movement and access to human rights monitors and electoral observers around the country. • Ensure electoral observers remain in the country for as long as necessary after the presidential runoff to help ensure that the aftermath is free from human rights abuses and to report publicly on any that may occur. 7 Human Rights Watch 2008