Appendix I Brief summary of statistics based on reports to the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, July 2001 to December 2007. As can be from Table 1 below, the Human Rights Forum has had reports of nearly 30,000 violations since July 2001, when the Forum began to put out its Monthly Political Violence reports. Obviously 2007 has been the worst year since recording began, and there has been a steady linear increase in the number of violations reported since 2005. Table 1 Consolidated statistics [numbers of violations reported] per year Abductions Arrest & detention Assault Attempted murder Death threats Disappearance Displacement Freedoms Murder Political discrimination Property violation Rape School closure Torture Total Mean monthly 2001 116 2002 223 2003 52 2004 62 2005 18 2006 11 2007 19 Total 501 % of total 1.7 670 0 274 86 627 388 389 401 1286 530 2611 486 2766 865 8623 2756 29.4 9.4 0 0 0 0 12 34 2 12 28 11 39 61 10 80 4 208 809 10 8 35 0 189 760 3 1 9 0 609 1036 4 3 7 0 55 1866 2 0 7 0 6 3500 3 24 150 32 1078 8022 117 0.1 0.5 0.1 3.7 27.3 0.4 194 388 450 514 476 288 980 3290 11.2 356 0 0 903 2285 381 807 7 45 1172 3155 263 153 6 1 497 3295 275 132 3 0 160 2656 221 61 4 0 136 4170 348 55 1 0 366 5751 479 16 0 0 603 8036 670 1580 21 46 3837 29348 376 5.4 0.1 0.2 13.1 As the Human Rights Forum has pointed out on many occasions, there is a marked increase in violations in periods during which there are elections, or in periods when opposition parties or civil society organizations undertake public demonstration of their views or dissatisfactions. For, example, the stay aways and demonstrations in 2003, as well as the demonstrations by the NCA and WOZA in 2007, all evoked numerous complaints of gross human rights violations. As can be seen from the Table below, this trend is strongly confirmed by simple statistical analysis of the Human Rights Forum’s data. There are a total of 22 months in which elections took place, which included the month 20