Table 25 Association of damages claims with shootings Shootings 3,634,476 349,177 11,012 1,156 Amount claimed (Z$) Amount awarded (Z$) Amount claimed (US$) Amount awarded (US$) No shooting 4,349,190 154,467 6,142 57* * t-test: Damages awarded in US$ (P <0.00001) 3.3 Other offences There were only a few cases of arson, and this usually came together with destruction-of-property cases. Also there were cases of theft, of wrongful death and of forced displacement, and there were no cases of rape. The main complaints in these civil cases were of assault, assault GBH, unlawful arrest and detention, as well as torture (Table 26). What are referred to here as multiple offences are cases where one defendant is sued for damages for more than one offence, e.g. assault GBH and torture, or unlawful arrest and unlawful detention. As can be seen, there were no cases where a person was sued for unlawful arrest alone; it is usually combined with either assault or unlawful detention. The ‘other’ category in the table includes offences that were not placed in separate categories of their own, e.g. degrading treatment, abduction and attempted murder. The majority of these represent the Food Riots cases which consisted of assaults in people’s homes after they were accused of looting during the riots. Table 26 Cases involving other offences Offence Arson Assault Assault GBH Destruction of property Forced displacement Rape Theft Torture Unlawful arrest Unlawful detention Wrongful death Other Single offence 1 30 91 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 16 Multiple 7 43 99 16 1 0 2 72 34 57 2 31 Total 8 73 190 16 1 0 2 72 34 57 3 47 Percentage 2.75 25.09 65.29 5.5 0.34 0 0.69 24.74 11.68 19.59 1.03 16.15 The two cases of theft involved the police, where they stole personal property from the plaintiffs, i.e. mobile phones and money. One of the three wrongful death cases was a Food Riots case where a 17-year–old boy was shot and killed by the riot squad while coming home from school.31 The second case involved a member of the army who fatally beat up a man in a fight, and in the remaining case a man was shot and killed by either the police or army when he was taking part in peaceful industrial action at his workplace. The Food Riots case is the only one that was concluded and the police have paid damages for wrongful death to the tune of US$209. 31 See Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, What Happened to the Victims of the Food Riots? 19