Cases of human rights violation have increased under the administration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum said in a report.
Scores of human rights campaigners and protesters have been arrested in an expansive clampdown in the country.
The main opposition party, the MDC Alliance, had reported that dozens of its officials have been arrested or have gone into hiding.
In a speech to the nation on 4 August, President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared that his government was facing ‘many hurdles and attacks’ and that ‘the bad apples who have attempted to divide our people and to weaken our systems will be flushed out’.
He added, ‘We will overcome attempts at destabilisation of our society by a few rogue Zimbabweans acting in league with foreign detractors’.
The 21-member forum of human rights defenders said it recorded rights violations between April and September this year.
‘These abuses have worsened since [Robert] Mugabe left office in 2017′, the forum noted.
‘Mugabe’s regime saw the slaughter of an estimated 20,000 citizens in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces in the early 1980s and Operation Murambatsvina in 2005, among other difficult post-independence periods’.
The forum condemned the use of coercion on dissenting voices, stating that the fragility of the country cannot be managed by the resort to coercion.
‘Zimbabwe is receiving increased pressure from the international community for reform, even concern from Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries and the African Union, in order to arrest the slide from fragile to the failed state’, it noted.
Source: Breitbart
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