TRENDS ANALYSIS Figure 4: Victim and perpetrator analysis by gender The majority of the perpetrators and victims of violence are male; this could be a reflection of the gendered nature of political conflict in ZZimbabwe. imbabwe. Men are mostly involved in political activities activit than women and hence there are more cases involving men. A worrying trend however is the increase in the number of female victims of violence from 86 in February and 72 in January,, which is 35% and 51% increase respectively. Figure 5: Victim and perpetrator analysis by affiliation The graph above depicts a typical scenario where there are more victims of violence belonging to the opposition MDC- T. There is however an emerging trend where the numbers of Zanu PF members who are victims of intra party viole violence is slowly receding from 88 in January and 70 in February. MDC- T members are noted as perpetrators of violence. This is mainly attributed to intra party fights and the unfortunate culture of using violence in dealing with political differences. 14