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22.6% violence victims were MDC-T members in April- ZPP
27 May 2016 at 15:17hrs | Views
The
Zimbabwe Peace Project has said the political affiliation for a
majority of political violence victims for April at 57.9 % was unknown.
The orgisanisation said the MDC-T had 22.6 percent of the victims, while ZimPF made up 7.5 percent of total victims and seemed to be neck and neck with Zanu PF which stood at 7.2 percent.
"As the figure above shows, most of the perpetrators of political violence for April, as is the case with all other months, were from Zanu-PF at 81.6 % of the incidences. This number increased slightly from March figure of 80," said ZPP.
"Next was MDC-T with 7 %, then War Vets with 4.5 % of
the perpetrators, while Zimbabwe Republic Police also had incidences
they perpetrated at 3.5%. Like previous months, April showed the number
of male victims of violence being more than that of women."
ZPP said male victims were 213 down from last month's figure of 222; while female victims were 79 a considerable decrease from last month's The number of male perpetrators of violence for April at 180 is significantly less than that of 218 last month.
"Women stood at a fraction of that at 21 for April this figure was slightly higher than the figure for women perpetrators in March which stood at 17. This shows that men were more likely to perpetrate violence than women; and that
there was decrease in women perpetrating violence," ZPP said.
"As in all other months, April showed the most common type of violence being intimidation and harassment. For the month under focus the figure for that type of violation stood at 87 out of 138, which are more than half the violations."
The orgisanisation said the MDC-T had 22.6 percent of the victims, while ZimPF made up 7.5 percent of total victims and seemed to be neck and neck with Zanu PF which stood at 7.2 percent.
"As the figure above shows, most of the perpetrators of political violence for April, as is the case with all other months, were from Zanu-PF at 81.6 % of the incidences. This number increased slightly from March figure of 80," said ZPP.
ZPP said male victims were 213 down from last month's figure of 222; while female victims were 79 a considerable decrease from last month's The number of male perpetrators of violence for April at 180 is significantly less than that of 218 last month.
"Women stood at a fraction of that at 21 for April this figure was slightly higher than the figure for women perpetrators in March which stood at 17. This shows that men were more likely to perpetrate violence than women; and that
there was decrease in women perpetrating violence," ZPP said.
"As in all other months, April showed the most common type of violence being intimidation and harassment. For the month under focus the figure for that type of violation stood at 87 out of 138, which are more than half the violations."
Source - Byo24News
