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[20] [citation needed] The Mugabe administration has also been criticized by political opponents and groups like Amnesty International for the human rights abuses carried out by the country's security services. A massacre took place in Chikurubi Prison in Harare, on June 29, 1996, where Human Rights Watch estimated that more than 1,200 ...
The United Nations described the campaign as an effort to drive out and make homeless large sections of the urban and rural poor, who make up much of the internal opposition to the Mugabe administration. Amnesty International and the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions called on the UN
Robert Mugabe and ZAPU leader Joshua Nkomo signed the Unity Accord on 22 December 1987. [23] This effectively merged ZAPU and ZANU into the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF). On 18 April 1988, Mugabe announced an amnesty for all dissidents, and Nkomo called on them to lay down their arms.
In 1985, an Amnesty International report on the Gukurahundi was dismissed by Mugabe as "a heap of lies". [237] Over the course of four years, approximately 10,000 civilians had been killed, and many others had been beaten and tortured. [238]
Amnesty International wrote "Freedom of expression came under increasing restrictions during the year. Journalists and lawyers were arbitrarily detained, beaten, tortured and threatened for reporting on political or human rights issues or representing the victims of human rights violations."
Non-government organisations (NGOs), among them Amnesty International, 32 Nigerian NGOs and 17 from Zimbabwe, have expressed concern about the continued abuses of human rights in the country. African Union Chairman, President Olusegun Obasanjo , has been urged to prevail on Zimbabwe, to fully implement recommendations of the African Commission ...
45.49 30 −15 MDC–T 43.56 24 +17 MDC–M 7.97 6 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Maps Mugabe 30-40% 40-50% 50-60% 60-70% Tsvangirai 40-50% 50-60% 60-70% Presidential election results by province House of Assembly election results by constituency Politics of Zimbabwe Constitution Constitutional history Human rights Government President Emmerson Mnangagwa ...
The events of the first and second rounds of the Zimbabwean presidential election, which Robert Mugabe of ZANU-PF won on 27 June 2008 after his challenger, Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), withdrew from the process and declared it illegitimate, caused reactions from many international bodies.