Still receiving opposition from the members of the mandebele clan, an elite squad of North Korea trained brigade known as ‘Gukurahundi’ meaning(, the early rain that washes away the chaff before the spring rain’). As a result of the raid, at least 20000 civilians lost their lives. This was the beginning of the many human rights violations from torture, assaults, unlawful arrests, rigged elections, discrimination, police brutality and ethnic cleansing among others that were carried out on the Zimbabwean people by the government. Over time the government has tried to give the nation a positive image to the international community through public relation stunts but many human rights agencies have negatively criticized them.
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This followed by the protests of the trade unionists who held peaceful protest on payments but in turn, they received by police brutality where by some people were arrested without trial, others claimed they were tortured and disappearance of others. The government also carried out forceful redistribution of land whereby they chased away the whites using the militia groups like ZANLA from their farms so as to distribute the land (which they did not do) instead of coming into an agreement with the whites on how to distribute the land. Other cases included again students protesting on the increased government control on the universities they were dispersed denying them their freedom of association and expression. The arrest of three foreign journalists who claimed they were arrested and tortured by the Zimbabwe authorities. In the history of Zimbabwe, they have never had free, fair and credible elections. Voters are intimidated, they are forced to reveal their vote to party officials which is not supposed to happen, the voters are also bribed and harassment of the oppositions by the government and issuing death threats to the opposition. Women’s rights in Zimbabwe although stated in theory that they are protected by the government, there is still a high percentage of under age and forceful marriages. Women are harassed at their work places and do not get equal pay for the work they have done compared to the men, the women still face domestic violence and no action is taken when they forward their issues. This justifies the fact that Zimbabwe is still a cultural relativist state that believes in the communal rights where the women are
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This followed by the protests of the trade unionists who held peaceful protest on payments but in turn, they received by police brutality where by some people were arrested without trial, others claimed they were tortured and disappearance of others. The government also carried out forceful redistribution of land whereby they chased away the whites using the militia groups like ZANLA from their farms so as to distribute the land (which they did not do) instead of coming into an agreement with the whites on how to distribute the land. Other cases included again students protesting on the increased government control on the universities they were dispersed denying them their freedom of association and expression. The arrest of three foreign journalists who claimed they were arrested and tortured by the Zimbabwe authorities. In the history of Zimbabwe, they have never had free, fair and credible elections. Voters are intimidated, they are forced to reveal their vote to party officials which is not supposed to happen, the voters are also bribed and harassment of the oppositions by the government and issuing death threats to the opposition. Women’s rights in Zimbabwe although stated in theory that they are protected by the government, there is still a high percentage of under age and forceful marriages. Women are harassed at their work places and do not get equal pay for the work they have done compared to the men, the women still face domestic violence and no action is taken when they forward their issues. This justifies the fact that Zimbabwe is still a cultural relativist state that believes in the communal rights where the women are