11 30. The Committee requests the State party to ensure the wide dissemination in Zimbabwe of the Covenant, the State party report and the Committee's concluding observations. There was been no wide dissemination as requested, and since the Government made no steps to either constitute a commission of inquiry or compensate those who suffered human rights violations, the ZHRNF decided to go ahead and support the request by survivors for civil claims against the Government. This section deals with the cases that were referred to members of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, and are based on detailed interviews with all the clients. All persons had lengthy interviews with health workers and legal practitioners. Additionally, medical reports were obtained from medical practitioners and physiotherapists where the clients had seen these personnel. Where possible, witnesses were interviewed and affidavits obtained from them. All this data was compiled on to a database, and the following results are derived from the database. All the cases described above were comprehensively assessed as part of their claims for damages. Detailing the psychosocial consequences is important when it is considered that the only other official report on the Food Riots, that issued by the ZRP General Headquarters, made no mention of human rights abuses or even the scale of injuries suffered. The press reports indicated that men, women and children were all affected by the violence, and this is again corroborated by the results of the Mabvuku case studies. As can be seen from Table 10 below, more men than women were affected, and most were young persons (mean age 26.9) as opposed to other groups of survivors. This is not a comment of any consequence however, and it would be expected that current victims would be young. As also might be expected of a young group, there were a large number of single persons and relatively few widowed or divorced persons. Table 10. Demographic characteristics of Riots Victims (HRF. 1999) GENDER: male female AGE: MARITAL STATUS: 30 14 27.5[9.9] single married divorced widowed 15 16 3 1 employed unemployed 28 16 EMPLOYMENT: One complaint was brought on behalf of a deceased person, whilst 13 were complaints about injuries due to bullet wounds (see Table 9 below). The majority brought complaints about assaults, some of whom experienced these assaults during detention. Table 11. Complaints by victims of Food Riots (HRF.1999) Death Bullet wounds Assaults Detention 1 13 30 11 AMANI TRUST: Beating your opposition. Torture during the 2002 Presidential campaign in Zimbabwe.