Zimbabwe Election Violence 2008
Summary the campaign of violence and repression in zimbabwe aimed at destroying opposition and ensuring that robert mugabe is returned as president in runoff elections on june 27 2008 is.
Zimbabwe election violence 2008. See also post harmonised election violence in may 2008 and post harmonised election violence in june 2008. Through all of zimbabwe s political and economic troubles mugabe retained the support of many african heads of state and remained popular within zanu pf. The zimbabwe election support network a respected local poll monitoring organisation dispatched 8 800 observers to check on the march vote.
Although a call for a general strike on 14 april 2008 by movement for democratic change tsvangirai mdc t went unheeded see rising tensions and legal manouevres it resulted in increased tension between the conflicting parties and a ratchetting up of violence levels marawanyika 2008. Prospects from a flawed election march 20 2008. 2 a march 2008 and international cris is group icg africa report no.
The general agriculture and plantation workers union of zimbabwe gapwuz 2008 reported on 8 may that since election day 39 752 farm workers had been driven from the land by violence organised by zanu pf and supported by the police and the military. The zimbabwean newspaper published numerous verified reports of election violence in 2008. Policy president robert mugabe 84 and his party the zimbabwe.
This time the government has said it will permit the. Also on 9 may the zimbabwe association of doctors for human rights said that in the violence following the election 22 people had been killed and 900 had been tortured. However the group said that it had become impossible to properly document all cases due to the scale of the violence which the group claimed had seriously worsened during may.
In december 2007 the party endorsed mugabe as its presidential candidate in the 2008 elections. Here is a selection from our archives for anyone whose memory needs jogging. Zimbabwe zimbabwe 2008 elections and aftermath.
2008 elections and implications for u s. At that time the public was growing angry while it was taking more than a month for the zimbabwe election commission zec to announce the result of the 29 march 2008 presidential poll.