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Supporters of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party cheer at an election rally in Mubaira, March 13, 2008. © 2008 Reuters |
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On March 29, 2008, Zimbabweans cast their ballots in presidential, parliamentary, senatorial and local council elections, the first synchronized elections since changes to the constitution in 2007.
A Human Rights Watch report of March 29, All Over Again: Human Rights Abuses and Flawed Electoral Conditions in Zimbabwe’s Coming General Elections, documents serious electoral flaws and human rights abuses, primarily by the government and President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), which have undermined a free and fair vote. “Bullets for Each of You”: State-Sponsored Violence since Zimbabwe’s March 29 Elections, released on June 9, documents abuses by ZANU-PF officials and supporters—members of the armed forces, police, “war veterans,” and youth militia—against MDC activists and perceived MDC supporters, including beatings, torture and killings, in the wake of ZANU-PF’s defeat in the March 29 elections. It also examines the government of Zimbabwe’s role in perpetrating and inciting the violence for political gain, and its failure to end the violence and prosecute those responsible. The August 12 report, "They Beat Me like a Dog": Political Persecution of Opposition Activists and Supporters in Zimbabwe describes ongoing abuses, including killings, beatings and arbitrary arrests, by ZANU-PF and its allies against MDC members of parliament, activists and supporters before and after the June 27 presidential runoff election. Reports
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