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Elections violence predicted in Zimbabwe
24 Mar 2011 at 04:42hrs | Views
Zimbabwean civil society organizations have said holding free, fair and democratic elections in that country is near impossible.
This was the view of Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition programmes manager Pedzisani Ruhanya, who told a media briefing in Johannesburg on Wednesday that the Global Political Agreement (GPA) achieved in 2008 no longer exists and human rights abuses are occurring daily.
"Zanu-PF has decided to go back to its old way of lawlessness, its old way of human rights violations and its old way of violating the fundamentals of civil and political liberties of Zimbabweans.
"For the past months MDC members of parliament and cabinet ministers along with civil society leaders have been arrested. Zanu-PF is talking about having elections, but the infrastructure of holding the elections is non-existent," he warned.
Pelagia Razemba, Deputy National Chairperson of Zimbabwe Human Rights Association concurred with Ruhanya, saying that human rights violations have recently escalated in the country, with Zanu-PF aligned youth militia being used to attack civilians.
"The human rights situation is at a crisis level. We are really getting scared for our lives as we live there," she said.
This was the view of Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition programmes manager Pedzisani Ruhanya, who told a media briefing in Johannesburg on Wednesday that the Global Political Agreement (GPA) achieved in 2008 no longer exists and human rights abuses are occurring daily.
"Zanu-PF has decided to go back to its old way of lawlessness, its old way of human rights violations and its old way of violating the fundamentals of civil and political liberties of Zimbabweans.
"For the past months MDC members of parliament and cabinet ministers along with civil society leaders have been arrested. Zanu-PF is talking about having elections, but the infrastructure of holding the elections is non-existent," he warned.
Pelagia Razemba, Deputy National Chairperson of Zimbabwe Human Rights Association concurred with Ruhanya, saying that human rights violations have recently escalated in the country, with Zanu-PF aligned youth militia being used to attack civilians.
"The human rights situation is at a crisis level. We are really getting scared for our lives as we live there," she said.
Source - Byo24News
