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April
Denial
of
freedom to
demonstrate
& petition
Riot police fired teargas canisters to disperse
students at Great Zimbabwe University (GZU),
who stormed the institution’s Mashava campus
protesting against poor diet, unsafe drinking
water, hiked tuition fees and withdrawal of WiFi facilities. It was reported that the students
had been granted permission to demonstrate and
petition though compass security and RIOT
police brutally suppressed their demonstration
with teargas.
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FIGURE 1: Distribution of Perpetrators by Violator Institution 1 January to 31 April
2018
ZANU-PF were the main perpetrators of violence, accounting for 69% of the violence,
followed by traditional leaders at 15%, ZRP, accounted for 8% of the violence, the ZNA &
Unknown at 3% and ZCDC accounted for 2%.
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