Human Rights Watch publicou hoxe un informe de 70 páxinas sobre a violencia política en Zimbabwe, exercida por partidarios do presidente Mugabe (ás veces coa colaboración das forzas armadas e policiais) contra os membros do MDC (partido da oposición). Esta violencia inclúe mortes, secuestros, torturas, mutilacións e desprazamento forzado de miles de persoas.
O informe leva por título “Bullets for Each of You: State-Sponsored Violence since Zimbabwe’s March 29 Elections”. Copio un extracto da súa introducción:
The campaign of violence and repression in Zimbabwe, aimed at destroying opposition and ensuring that Robert Mugabe is returned as president in runoff elections on June 27, 2008 is claiming thousands of victims as the government at national and local levels actively, systematically and methodically targets Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) activists and perceived MDC supporters. [...]
This report, based on investigations in Zimbabwe, describes the scale of the abuses and identifies those responsible—officials from ZANU-PF, often working through proxy forces of so-called war veterans and youth militia, backed by members of the armed forces and police. Local institutions have identified at least 2,000 beatings and cases of torture. At least 36 people have been killed, including, in May, abducted MDC activists. Given the movement restrictions in place and the limit to information flow that results, Human Rights Watch believes that the number of people attacked far exceeds these figures.
ZANU-PF officials and “war veterans” are beating, torturing and mutilating suspected MDC activists and supporters in hundreds of base camps, many of them army bases, established across the provinces as local operations centers. Abusive “re-education” meetings are being held to compel MDC supporters into voting for Mugabe. In one of these meetings, on May 5 in Chiweshe, ZANU-PF officials and “war veterans” beat six men to death and tortured another 70 men and women, including a 76-year-old woman publicly thrashed in front of assembled villagers. [...]
