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Human Rights Watch『Perpetual Fear -Impunity and Cycles of Violence in Zimbabwe-』

Human Rights Watch 2011年3月,46p.


Human Rights Watch 2011年3月,46p.

■目次
Summary .....................................................................................................................1
Methodology .............................................................................................................18
I. Background ...............................................................................................................19
A History of Impunity ...................................................................................................19
Impunity in the Context of Elections ............................................................................19
II. Impunity and International Law .................................................................................... 21
III. Impunity through Amnesties and Clemency .................................................................24
IV. Failure to Investigate and Prosecute Serious Political Crimes ....................................... 26
V. Failure to Investigate Torture by State Agents ............................................................... 31
VI. Response of the Power-Sharing Government ............................................................... 35
Recommendations ...................................................................................................38
To the Government of National Unity .........................................................................38
To the Member States of the Southern African Development Community..............39
To the European Union and the United States .......................................................39
Acknowledgements ..................................................................................................40


■引用
◆「It’s a painful experience knowing that our neighbors, who we see every day, were the perpetrators. I feel angry. The perpetrators have made it clear at their rallies that at the next elections they will do it again because they didn’t get arrested. We now live in perpetual fear. We can’t do anything about it. We have received no help from the state.」<9p>

◆「Zimbabwe’s criminal justice system has promoted impunity by rarely providing justice for serious human rights violations. The police and judiciary are severely compromised and have largely ignored calls for investigations into past and recent human rights abuses. Police who fail or refuse to file criminal complaints by victims of political violence are rarely investigated or disciplined. The ZANU-PF government, which remains in charge of the judiciary under the GNU, has routinely undermined its independence by appointing partisan judges to hear cases, disregarding high court orders and threatening and attacking independent judges and magistrates.」 <31p>

◆「The use of torture by state agents is endemic in Zimbabwe. In the aftermath of the 2008 general elections, Human Rights Watch reported that the army established bases across the country to torture people as a form of punishment for voting for the MDC. The police have also routinely arrested human rights activists and journalists and subjected them to torture, cruel, degrading and inhumane treatment. The torture and ill-treatment inflicted has included severe beatings on the back, buttocks and soles of the feet with blunt objects, forcing victims to seat or stand in uncomfortable positions for hours on end, as well as false executions and threats of death. The government has repeatedly refused to investigate allegations of torture by police and other state agents, despite court orders」<36p>

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