20 Until the Zimbabwe Government demonstrates its clear commitment to enforcing human rights, ratifies the UN Convention Against Torture and the Rome Statute and ensures that these instruments are enshrined in domestic law, and takes public steps to bring all perpetrators of torture to book, any discussion about a Human Rights Commission can only be viewed as window-dressing and an evasion of its constitutional responsibilities. The various Zimbabwean court decisions awarding damages to victims of human rights completely contradict the contentions of Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs and the Deputy-Commissioner of the ZRP that Zimbabwe is a human rights abiding country, and that all reports to the contrary are mischievous inventions of imperialist lackeys. The country needs the Government to ensure that the police do their job properly, professionally, without prejudice, and without using torture, such as falanga. Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum. Only bruises on the soles of their feet. The use of Falanga by the Zimbabwe Republic Police.

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