HRW Slams Mugabe Over Human Rights Abuses

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the Southern African leaders to get tough with Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe or ask the United Nations to step in.

The HRW estimates that 163 people have been killed in political violence since the country’s disputed March elections, in which Mugabe lost his majority in parliament for the first time since the country’s independence in 1980.

HRW Africa director, Georgette Gagnon, points out that, "ZANU-PF's institutions of repression remain intact, and there has been no change in their abusive conduct and attitude." The organisation has further criticised Mugabe of using police and judicial system against the opposition and civil society despite a unity accord signed in September.

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