The Unleashing of Violence:
A report on violence in Zimbabwe
as at May 15, 2000

A report compiled by the Zimbabwe Human Rights
Non-Governmental Organisations Forum

May 16, 2000

Contents

• Introduction
• Background to violence
• Politicisation of the land issue
• Violence on the farms
• Political violence
• Overview
• Cases of violence in Zimbabwe
• Section A - Violence on commercial farms
• Section B - Political violence
• Psychological violence
• Sources
• Statistical overview of violence
• Violence during peace march in Harare April 1, 2000
• Section C - Cases involving teachers