The Unleashing of Violence:
A report on violence in Zimbabwe
update for the week ending May 19, 2000

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

May 24, 2000

Contents

• History of the forum
• Introduction
• A discussion of the interviews from 11-19 May
• Targeting party activists
• Rooting out opposition supporters
• A summary of reports of political violence from 13-19 May
• Reports on political violence 13-19 May from newspaper sources
• Endnotes