Human Rights Archive Zimbabwe

POLITICALLY
MOTIVATED RAPE IN
ZIMBABWE.
Report produced by the Women’s Programme of
the Research & Advocacy Unit [RAU]

April 2011

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Summary: The report talks about the two different forms of rape which need to be distinguished: the first, rape that occurs during actual war, and the second, politically motivated rape, which can occur outside of war situations, but is used a political tactic against a particular ethnic or political grouping. This report is concerned with the latter since it is evident that a state of war does not exist in Zimbabwe, although it could rightly be described as a “complex emergency”2.