WINDHOEK - An exhibition hosted by the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZIMRIGHTS) and a documentary highlighting the problems that are being faced by farm workers in Zimbabwe after the start of the land reform programme of 2000 left many civic society leaders here in tears.
Emotions ran high as many civic representatives from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) gathered to watch the gory acts of violence meted out to ordinary Zimbabweans during the 2008 elections through the pictures and video presentations.
The ZIMRIGHTS exhibition of pictures chronicling the violence that took place during the June 2008 election which was banned in Harare in May, left many delegates shocked.
“ZIMRIGHTS path of preaching truth telling and advocacy around national healing using the pictures in our country was thwarted by state security agents. This left us with no option but to use such platforms like the SAPSN gathering here in Windhoek,” said ZIMRIGHTS director, Okay Machisa.
He was speaking at the Southern African People’s Network (SAPSN) meeting held in Namibia. A documentary of the plight of farm workers also left delegates in tears.
One of the delegates immediately called for the arrest and subsequent trial of President Robert Mugabe at the Hague for the disregard of human rights in Zimbabwe.
“He is no different from Saddam Hussein or Omar Al Bashir, he must be at the Hague because that’s where he belongs,” said the delegate from Lesotho.
The documentary was done by the Research and Advocacy Unit.
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