“Crush Them Like Lice”
Repression of Civil and Political Rights Ahead of Zimbabwe’s August 2023 Election

September 28, 2023
The scale of the abuses that have unfolded in the period covered by your mandate are mind-boggling – dozens of mass killings, widespread and systematic sexual violence against 10,000 Tigrayan women and girls, and apparent use of starvation as a method of war.
Repression of Civil and Political Rights Ahead of Zimbabwe’s August 2023 Election
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