BARELY a week after United Nations (UN) special rapporteur Clement Nyaletsossi Vaule delivered a damning report on Zimbabwe\u2019s state of human rights and eager to please the world, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has set up a special team to look into the violence that has rocked the country since last year.<\/p>\n
Mnangagwa, who is struggling to convince the West that he is leading a \u2018new dispensation\u2019 that respects people\u2019s basic rights, told Parliament on Tuesday that he was going to set up an inter-ministerial task-force to investigate the matters. In his State of the Nation address to Parliament on Tuesday, the President said he was going to investigate accusations of rights abuses.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ongoing democratic reforms must entrench constitutional rights and freedoms for all Zimbabweans and therefore the culture of fear and violence must be uprooted from our societies,\u201d said Mnangagwa.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn line with this commitment to defend our democracy, I have set up an inter-ministerial task-force to look into the political, electoral, legislative and administrative issues raised by the 2018 electoral observer missions and indeed the (former South African President Kgalema) Motlanthe Commission.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some six civilians were gunned down by the military on August 1 last year after protests broke out against electoral body, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission\u2019s late announcement of presidential results.<\/p>\n
Another 17 more civilians were killed by the army in January during a three-day national shutdown triggered by a 150% fuel hike announced by Mnangagwa.<\/p>\n
Abductions of opposition political players and human rights defenders have further worsened his image.<\/p>\n
As a result, Mnangagwa has had a torrid time courting the West for their much needed Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) whose absence has further weakened the already poor economy.<\/p>\n
America and European states have demanded tangible reforms before re-engagement with Harare.<\/p>\n
The European Union (EU) has also been savage on its analysis of his human rights record since taking over from Mugabe in a coup November 2017.<\/p>\n
A desperate Mnangagwa had to lie during last week\u2019s UN General Assembly address, misrepresenting that two of Zimbabwe\u2019s most notorious laws had been repealed when they have not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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