Zimbabwe’s ruling party, ZANU PF, is responsible for almost 90% of breaches of an agreement that paved the way to the formation of the country’s unity government, a Coalition of civil society groups Sokwanele said Sunday in Harare the capital.
The Coalition of civil society groups falling under the banner of Sokwanele said it had so far recorded 3,850 breaches of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) which was signed by President Robert Mugabe of ZANU PF, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of the main Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) wing and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara of a breakaway MDC faction.
It said ZANU PF was responsible for 88.8 percent of all the violations recorded up to the end of October.
“October has been a month characterized by violence, lawlessness, corruption and the complete abuse of power for partisan and personal objectives,” Sokwanele said in a report released Sunday.
Some of the violations included continued arrests of MDC activists on what observers say are trumped-up charges and the re-emergence of torture camps in the country side which are run by ZANU PF militias.
The civil society groups said cases of political violence have increased since the announcement by Tsvangirai on 16 October that his MDC was suspending cooperation with ZANU PF.
The month of October also witnessed the deportation of the UN special Rapporteur on Torture, Manfred Nowak.
Nowak, who had been officially invited to come to the country, had his invitation canceled at the last minute while he was mid-journey in Johannesburg, South Africa.
He was subsequently refused entry into Zimbabwe and deported.
Source African Press Agency
