Human Rights Watch condemn continued political violence in Zimbabwe.

Human Rights Watch report condemns continued violence in Zimbabwe and suggest elections should be postponed until the violence stop.

Whilst one shares the HRW’s concerns; no one wants more people raped and killed. Still one has to accept that the GNU has failed the people of Zimbabwe and therefore it must go. This can only happen if elections are held.

The HRW were critical of PM Tsvangirai and his MDC party for focusing their attention on the survival of the GNU and none on ending political violence.

People should consider what to do NOW to ensure the next elections are free of violence? Postponing elections is not really the answer considering there was violence in the last elections and for the last years Mugabe has continued to beat the war drum. If we did not have an answer to this thorny issue in the past why should tomorrow be any different?

Mugabe and his cronies were quick to dismiss the HRW report and restate the now familiar lie that it is MDC supporters who are behind the violence. Even those people who are not familiar with the going on in Zimbabwe find it difficult to accept Mugabe and Zanu PF's excuses for the continued violence for three basic reasons:

1) If it is indeed MDC supporters who are causing the violence then why is it that the violence always takes place at MDC rallies, meetings and in the private homes of MDC supporters?

2) Why has Mugabe failed to establish an independent commission to establish the true facts behind the violence since the dictator and you, his cronies, do not believe the HRW report? By the way SADC Election Monitoring Team's report on 2008 Elections confirmed most of the violence then were carried out by Zanu PF supporters and, worse still, that the Police and other State Security Agencies did not only failed to stop the violence but were themselves involved in the violence in support of Mugabe!

3) Whenever there is widespread human rights violations and those responsible are not punished - 1000s were raped and 200 killed in 2008 and not one of those responsible were ever arrested - it is clear that the State is behind the violence. This is a well documented tactic of repressive regimes the world over!