Impunity and Cycles of Violence in Zimbabwe
This report examines the lack of justice in several illustrative cases of political killings, torture, and abductions by government security forces and their allies during and after the presidential election run-off in 2008. Human Rights Watch called on Zimbabwe’s power-sharing government to conduct immediate, credible, impartial, and transparent investigations into serious human rights abuses and to discipline or prosecute those responsible, regardless of their position or rank.
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ISBN: 1-56432-742-6
ISBN: 1-56432-742-6
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- Perpetual Fear
- Summary
- Methodology
- I. Background
- II. Impunity and International Law
- III. Impunity through Amnesties and Clemency
- IV. Failure to Investigate and Prosecute Serious Political Crimes
- V. Failure to Investigate Torture by State Agents
- VI. Response of the Power-Sharing Government
- Recommendations
- Acknowledgements






