POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: VIOLENCE UP AS ELECTIONS DRAW CLOSER IN ZIMBABWE : Police have arrested two more members of staff from the Prime Minister’s Communications Office, caretakers, Spiwe Vera and Elizabeth Banda. ...

Police have arrested two more members of staff from the Prime Minister’s Communications Office, caretakers, Spiwe Vera and Elizabeth Banda. This brings to six the number of staff members from the Office of the Prime Minister arrested inside five days. Lawyers have been dispatched to Harare Central Police Station to attend to them.Four party officials were arrested Sunday, along with prominent rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa who was trying to represent them during police searches of their offices and homes. The four top officials are accused of compiling information on the state’s failure to prosecute cases of high level corruption. Critics accuse ZANU-PF of abusing state security organs to intimidate its rivals ahead of crucial elections. The harassment of ZANU-PF’s perceived opponents extends to civic society groups, human rights lawyers and the private media.While the police have been quick to arrest suspected MDC-T perpetrators of violence, they have not done the same to ZANU-PF sup...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: THIS IS WHAT TSVANGIRAI IS TO FORGIVE MUGABE FOR! : PSYCHOLOGICAL METHODS Psychological torture too defies easy description, but all forms identified share common elements in the creation o...

PSYCHOLOGICAL METHODS Psychological torture too defies easy description, but all forms identified share common elements in the creation of extreme fear in a situation of uncontrollability. However, uncontrollability is a factor common to most torture methods, and, furthermore, it is difficult in practice to make clear distinctions between the effects of general psychological torture, and the specific anguish caused by "witnessing" and "disappearances". The clearest distinctions can always be found between what are termed "impact torture" and "non-impact torture" where the presence of physical injuries is the major difference. As can be seen below in the findings reported by Rasmussen, the variety of forms of psychological torture is very wide. TYPES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TORTURE (from Rasmussen.1990) Threats 85% Threats of execution 60% Undressed 45% Threats towards family members 43% Sham execution 31% Sexual verbal assaults 20% Changing...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: Dear Mr Mugabe : I DO not know how to put this, Sir. I have wrestled with my conscience and come to a rationally logical conclusion that after what transpir...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: MUGABE`S LARGESSE AND DOWNFALL : In the 80`s Harare played host to Western leaders who all stampeded to confer Mugabe honorary doctorates in humanities even though the 19...

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: NEW LEADER FOR ZIMBABWE : There isn’t anything the matter with EU and USA except that Mugabe is viewing it through a vision impaired by self-preservation. Poise has ...