3. Nature of Violations Recorded
In this reporting month, Heal Zimbabwe registered a total of 7 forms of human rights
violations. These cases involved; a 56% record of intimidation, 12% unfair/partisan
distribution of food aid and farming inputs, 7% destruction of campaign material, 10% forced
attendance to political gatherings, 1% disrupted political meetings and finally 2% assault on
political grounds. As observed in the last instalment of Heal Zimbabwe’s conflict update, it is
encouraging that there are barely any cases of rape, sexual assault, abduction, murder and
torture. Below bar graph shows different forms of violations recorded in the month of
January 2017.
Number of Violations Recorded in January 2017
4. Our Observation
In the month of January, Heal Zimbabwe observed that the most trending violations involved
intimidation and followed by vote buying and partisan food aid and farming inputs
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