The Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has said the brutality of security forces during the lockdown portrays the autocratic nature of the government.
This was indicated in the organisation’s monthly monitoring report of May. Below is the Executive Summary of the report.
On 23 May 2020, Paul Munakopa of Bulawayo died in circumstances that could have well been avoided. The 34-year-old was a victim of the police’s heavy-handedness. He was shot during a car chase, and the police who shot him were using an unmarked vehicle in an operation that they are yet to reveal.
This is just one of the incidences that speak to the continued rise in cases of human rights abuses perpetrated by state security agents.
For the second time in the year, the police and army topped the list of perpetrators of human rights violations. Overall, the police contributed to 41.21 percent of the human rights violations, while the army contributed to 22.26 percent of the violations.
