be most plausible for victims of state sponsored human rights violations. Questions around reparations and compensation are touched on in the report suffice to say that the issues remain vexing and contentious at the national level. Questions remain on who is supposed to bear the cost of such reparations. When the state compensates, is it not just the citizens compensating themselves? Why is it that individual state security agents and their superiors are not held individually accountable for atrocities committed in Zimbabwe? In a free falling and unstable economy like Zimbabwe's what currency should be used and who determines what currency or inflation rates to be used to compensate victims from yesteryear violent epochs. These questions are not easy and require more discussion. This report sets the tone for those discussions. The report notes that the current judicial system and operating environment in Zimbabwe leaves a lot to be desired. The domestic efforts to set up government and constitutional bodies such as the now defunct Organ on National Healing as well as the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission all seem to be overwhelmed by the state of impunity Zimbabwe finds itself in. More could be done. The bodies mandated to serve justice, investigate past human rights violations and advise the government seem week, are at their tethers and seemingly do not know exactly where to start from or where to go. The recommendations section in the report deals with that dilemma and recommends solutions to the police, the Ministry of Home Affairs, the NPRC, the government as a whole and what civil society can do to enhance its work on curbing impunity and redressing the scourge of the same phenomenon in Zimbabwe. Besides bringing to the fore the questionable and unlawful actions of state security agents in Zimbabwe, this report serves another purpose. It questions our conscience as a people on what our values are towards each other and as a nation. The same police officer who tortures another citizen has to go and face the same relatives at hospital or at a funeral. The same government that refuses to pay compensation to victims still collects taxes from the same people and plunders the money through corruption and still pleads incapacity to pay. The same security sector that is supposed to uphold the laws of the nation seem to operate oblivious of the laws of Zimbabwe and even plead ignorance. Yet, one of the fundamentals of law is that ignorance of the law especially from law enforcement officers cannot be a legal defence. How is that possible and how can it be allowed? Something has got to give and this report argues that the legacy of impunity has to be broken forthwith in Zimbabwe. Anti-Impunity Report 3