Proposed Remedy The NPRC has to include these, and many other issues omitted in its ndings. It is our hope that when the full report is produced, it will also be produced together with the record of proceedings to allow stakeholders to track the issues from the public meetings and have an appreciation of what informed the ndings. General Recommendations Proposed Remedy To remedy this matter, we invite the NPRC to urgently release the report and call for further input based on the actual contents of the report, not speculation of what the report may otherwise contain. The Missing Issues in the Presentation NTJWG carefully followed the public 21 Ÿ NTJWG acknowledges that the shortcomings of this process could have been prevented if the NPRC was adequately resourced. We now urge the government to live up to its commitment and constitutional obligations and provide the NPRC with adequate resources to enable the NPRC to carry out its work. Ÿ The integrity of the peace and reconciliation process rests heavily on the integrity of the information NPRCWATCH We note that the information regarding the conference was not made available in time to stakeholders hence limiting participation of many who may otherwise have desired to be part of the process. Stakeholders from outside Harare were greatly disadvantaged and this compromises the national character of the conference. Even as the conference kicked off, the report of the ndings that the participants were asked to validate was not made available. This compromised the substance of participation as stakeholders had to be content with bullet points of summaries that were projected during the conference. Many stakeholders attend such proceedings in representative capacity. As such it is critical that such an important report ought to have been made available ahead of the conference to allow stakeholders to consult with their constituencies, analyse the ndings and make a determination. The idea that the report which the stakeholders were asked to validate was never shared with stakeholders even at the conference makes such a validation process a matter of ticking the boxes. consultation process and noted the issues raised by stakeholders. Some of the issues were omitted from the ndings presented by the NPRC at the conference. The critical aspects that were missing include issues of violations committed during the liberation war, the 2005 Operation Murambatsvina, displacements of over 1,2 million people in farming communities between 2000 and 2007, the 2000 and 2002 electroral violence, violations in the Chiadzwa area, displacements at Tokwe Mukosi, displacements around the Kariba Dam among others. These are issues that the ndings cannot afford to ignore, even in summary. The ndings cannot afford to be silent on gender as the NPRC Act obliges the NPRC to have a specic focus on that area and a specic chapter in any report that follows. www.ntjwg.org.zw participation is not meant to be simply a token but is designed to inuence the process.

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