The Zimbabwean Experience of Transitional Justice Overweening attention has been paid to commercial farmers and farmworkers because of the so-called ‘land policy’ of the ZANU(PF) government. However, the evidence does not support the view that violence has been produced either by clashes over land or was the product of clashes between ZANU(PF) and MDC supporters. Overwhelmingly, the evidence indicates a systematic campaign, close to the level of a low-intensity war, of violence perpetrated by government agencies and supporters against all and any of these groups.21 The evidence also shows that government agencies and supporters are disproportionately indicated to be the perpetrators.22 Deaths in the form of extra-judicial killings or summary executions were not as common as in former periods of organized violence and torture. By August 2001, a total of 112 deaths can be confirmed, but it is also clear that this is an underestimate. If your family member had been killed, you would be very unlikely to have seen any arrest in connection with the murder, even though you probably knew who the perpetrator was. If you were a victim of torture, and this is the vast majority of the victims, there are a number of things that might have happened to you. You might have been attacked in your own home by a group, sometimes a mob, of ZANU(PF) supporters. You might have been ‘thoroughly beaten’ in front of your family, and other members of your family may have suffered the same fate. You might have been only ‘mildly tortured’ but received frightening intimidation and threats. You might have just received threats and intimidation and had your home vandalized and damaged; sometimes your home might have been severely damaged to the point of near total destruction. Your food stores might have been destroyed or stolen. You might have been a civil servant – a teacher or an administrator – and had a mob descend upon your place of work, threatening you and demanding 21  National Youth Service Training – ‘Shaping Youths in a Truly Zimbabwean Manner’: An Overview of Youth Militia Training and Activities in Zimbabwe, October 2000 – August 2003 (Harare and Johannesburg: Solidarity Peace Trust, 2003). 22  Who is responsible? A preliminary Analysis of Pre-election Violence in Zimbabwe (Harare: Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, 2000); Are They Accountable?: Examining alleged violators and their violations pre and post the Presidential Election March 2002 (Harare: Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, 2002); An Analysis of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum Legal Cases, 1998–2006 (Harare: Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, 2006). International Conference on Transitional Justice, Zimbabwe 41