9 4.3 Continuing violence Continuing violence and torture has been documented during the post-election period, with an indication that this has been increasing in the past months of 20015. These reports are again based upon the actual cases seen by the Forum, and thus we have high confidence that these are accurate reports. Of course, we are unable to give any clear statement about the prevalence of the violence and torture, but it is evident that the violence is increasing especially in Mashonaland Central Province. However, we can make some brief overview of the organised violence and torture according to our information. 4.3.1 General findings on Organised violence and torture Although there will be more detailed reports issued in the near future on the organised violence and torture, it is possible to draw some trends from the data currently available. As will be seen from Figure 1 below, there are a consistent number of cases being reported to the Forum over the past few months. There is some variation over the months, but very little real difference overall. Bear in mind here that the Forum saw nearly 1,000 cases during 2000, and the trend this year would suggest that we would see at least 600 more new cases. To this number we should also add the victims testifying in the election challenges, most of whom we have not seen before, and this number will in the region of another 1,000 cases. So overall, the Forum will end up with nearly 3,000 cases on our database as opposed to only 70 from the two previous years. These cannot be taken as absolute numbers and must be regarded as only indicators that violence is continuing. The vast majority of cases do not report to the Forum. Figure 1. Numbers of cases of gross human rights violations reporting to the Forum per month. 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 February 5 March April May June See Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (2001), Report on Organised Violence and Torture during January 2001, prepared by the Human Rights Legal Unit; Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (2001), Political Violence Report for February 2001; Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (2001), Political Violence Report: March 2001; Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (2001), Political Violence Report: April 2001.