The violence against the people of Zimbabwe continues:
The Zimbabwean army and police have been accused of setting up torture camps and organising "re-education meetings" involving unspeakable cruelty where voters are beaten and mutilated in the hope of achieving victory for President Robert Mugabe in the second round of the presidential election.
A 40-page report issued today by Human Rights Watch contains comprehensive and graphic witness accounts of the reign of terror being conducted behind a wall of secrecy in sealed-off areas to punish the Zimbabwean electorate for voting for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.
The piece goes on to detail some of the brutalities. See further on the new HRW report; and the report itself here - particularly section V, 'State-Sponsored Violence and Torture since the March 29 Elections'.
One might observe that an international legal system in which such things happen without timely response is not an effective one and ought to be treated more critically than it sometimes is by those who appeal to it as providing a normative standard.
