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Zimbabwe: MP Mliswa Pleads With Mnangagwa To Deal With Perpetrators Of Violence
263Chat, 1 March 2022
Mnangagwa's Zanu Pf party has already been implicated to the matter after the Zimbabwe Republic Police issued a memo suggesting several ZANU PF card-carrying members were among 16… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Violent Attacks On Chamisa Supporters Condemned
263Chat, 28 February 2022
The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has expressed dismay over political violence that erupted in Kwekwe over the weekend where opposition party, Citizens Coalition for Change… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Election Lobby Group Calls for Probe Into CCC Supporters Kwekwe Attack
New Zimbabwe, 1 March 2022
The Election Resource Centre (ERC) has called on the police, the National Reconciliation and Peace Commission (NRPC), and the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) to investigate… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Rights Group Denounces Political Violence Against CCC
263Chat, 24 February 2022
The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum has denounced the increase in politically motivated violence over the past month following the launch of the Citizens for Coalition Change… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: CCC Launch Fuels Politically Motivated Violence - NGO Forum
New Zimbabwe, 24 February 2022
The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (ZHR-NGO) has condemned the continuous occurrence of politically motivated violence since the launch of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)… Read more »
Can Zimbabwe Ditch A History of Political Suppression?
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has released 11 of the 16 suspects nabbed for politically motivated violence which erupted during the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa's rally in Kwekwe on February 27, 2022. At least one opposition activist was killed and 17 others were injured after violence broke out during the rally.
On February 26, 2022 police had already violently dispersed hundreds of opposition supporters in Gokwe, claiming they were understaffed to properly monitor the rally.
"This assault bears all the hallmarks of a pre-meditated attack that aims to intimidate political opposition and block access to their constituents ahead of the upcoming by-elections in March. The government's rhetoric has done much to incite such ferocious violence and unfortunately little to ensure the free exercise of the rights to freedom of assembly and association," said Muleya Mwananyanda, Amnesty International's Deputy Director for Southern Africa.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who succeeded late former president Robert Mugabe in 2017 and ruled with an iron fist for 37 years, is regularly accused of wanting to muzzle any dissenting opinion.
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Nelson Chamisa, left, leader of the Zimbabwe Citizens’ Coalition for Change, at a rally in Gokwe.
