Zimbabwe: Fear for safety/ Excessive use of force

Index Number: AFR 46/011/2005
Date Published: 31 May 2005
Categories: Africa, Zimbabwe

Amnesty International is seriously concerned for the safety of thousands of informal street traders and residents of informal settlements across Zimbabwe who are being targeted for forcible eviction in a government operation called "Operation Murambatsvina" (meaning drive out the rubbish, and referred to by the police as 'restore order').