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In a notice circulated to police stations across the country, all senior police officers have been warned against attending rallies addressed by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
“With immediate effect, no officers of or above the rank of inspector will attend political rallies. Officers will only attend those rallies addressed by his Excellency the State President Cde R. G. Mugabe,” the circular dated 20 July 2009 reads.
Human rights organizations say there has been no clear indication from the government as to whether, how or when institutional reform – particularly of the police, army and security forces – will take place.
Rights group Amnesty International has said that the Global Political Agreement (GPA) provides a framework for change, but commitment to its implementation is not consistent within government.
“As head of state, commander in chief of the armed forces and leader of the country for the last three decades, Mugabe and those around him have a special responsibility to rise to the challenge of delivering on the GPA and particularly on the hard core human rights issues,” Amnesty secretary-general Irene Khan said in a recent visit to Zimbabwe.
“We see no progress on security sector reform,” Khan said. “Reform of the security sector is urgently needed yet we have got no clear indication from the government as to whether, how and when such reform will happen. This lack of clarity has led to many human rights activists and ordinary Zimbabweans to fear that should violence erupt again, the State security apparatus will fail to protect them and might even be used against them.”
Additional Reporting: The Zimbabwean
Why should the police be attending rallies except for details on security duties anyway?
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@mukoma pedzisai
Are you saying that the police aren’t entitled to a political view?. What happens in their Off-duty hours.?
You are so out of touch with the real world that I suspect that you are a robot. !
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Some one put a gun to Chihurs head and pull the tr****
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The Commissioner is talking about the Police and not off duty policeman. Sill mhani iwe realist. Hudofo muchiita hushoma mhani.
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this article if true just confirms that this site is just a olace were wen we dont have anything else better to do. why? cz it stinks and full of rumour and ****. just recently there was another one lying that thre is a split within the JOC.I ronical that **** stated that Chiuri was ‘warming up’ to the inclusive gvt. lies1 lies! either this one or the other article is inaccurate coz one prson cant be seen to be ‘ warming up’ to the inclusive gvt and at the same directing his surbordinates to shun it. UTTER NONSENSE!
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well @ least they wont be ther to disrupt the rally.good thing ryt?
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DFE is discouraging hate speech but I think this is hate speech:
Some one put a gun to Chihurs head and pull the tr****
Please lets be civil and consistent.
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