Zimbabwe faces a “crisis of impunity” that has festered for decades and allows killings, torture and beatings to go unpunished, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Tuesday.
The police refuse to act on complaints of abuse and even murder, and judges are co-opted, threatened or attacked, the report said.
Tiseke Kasambala, a senior researcher for the human rights group, which is based in New York, told reporters that the climate in the country should prevent the holding of elections, which President Robert Mugabe, who has been in office for 31 years, is seeking. “If reforms are not instituted, then we say that there must be no elections in Zimbabwe,” Ms. Kasambala said.
Human Rights Watch called for Zimbabwe’s unity government to set an independent commission to investigate serious human rights abuses.
Source: New York Times
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