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NOTE: Numbers in brackets: indicate source numbers of BLPC interviews from which information was derived. ** indicates source document is in a CCJP file **** indicates an incident involving dissidents. For all other offences, the perpetrators are army units, or Govt agencies such as the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), or Police Support Unit (SU). 5 Brigade (5B) may be assumed as perpetrator unless another unit is mentioned. Matobo has been divided into three regions for the purposes of this summary. While there appear to be some discernible patterns of difference in the experience of one region from another in this case study area, this could be the consequence of the fact that interviewing was not as wide-spread as in the first cast study area. Current differences, such as the apparently large number of dead in the central region, might balance out with more thorough interviewing. It was noteworthy that before interviewing took place in September 1996, all the archival and academic information from all sources had been placed on the data base, and had revealed only 47 named dead in Matobo. The process of interviewing and assessing in terms of "village", increased this figure to over 220 in the space of four weeks. This represents a five-fold increase: many of the dead which were included at this stage were numbered dead indicated with full details of where and when, from the CCJP archives. This is perhaps an indication of what might happen to the current figures for the dead in other districts where there is currently little named data available, if interviewing and village by village assessment took place. ABBREVIATIONS: MISS:Missing TORT:Tortured ( physical methods other than beatings) ASS:Assaulted ( physical torture - beatings) DETN:Detention GSW:Gun Shot Wound 74
REPORT ON THE 1980S DISTURBANCES IN MATABELELAND AND THE MIDLANDS Compiled by the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe, March 1997 PART TWO: RESULTS - PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION OF NAMED HUMAN RIGHTS OFFENCES 1.HUMAN RIGHTS DATA BASE - NAMED VICTIMS Methodology has already been covered in some depth in Part One, II. To summarise, named victims were extracted from multiple sources, which included CCJP archival material, interviews conducted in the 1990s, paralegal clients, and previously published human rights and academic documents. These named victims were entered into the "HR Data Base". Each name was allocated a number, a set of letters indicating offence/s, and district and perpetrator were also tabulated.(see page for more detail). The following totals were arrived at: TOTAL VICTIMS:3 534entries in combined HR Data Bases. OFFENCES:7 246 [most victims suffered 2 or even 3 offences: occasionally one entry clearly indicates more than 1 victim - see Part One, II for examples. Approximately one thousand victims were validated from more than one source, and more than 300 were validated by 3 or more sources. 2. THE CHRONICLE DATA BASE Data from The Chronicle, Bulawayo's daily newspaper, were entered into an identical, but separate data base, for reasons discussed in Part One, II. The Chronicle listed victims in 2 ways, defined for the purposes of this report as "General" and "Specific" Reports. "General Reports" are the six monthly statements in Parliament, giving total numbers of dissident offences without clear indication of where they occurred. "Specific Reports" are the day by day reports of dissident activites, which tended to give the district where offences took place, the number of victims or value of property lost, but not usually the exact names of victims. Only specific reports were entered into The Chronicle Data Base. The Chronicle data base consisted of 562 entries, and covered the months from June 1982 to March 1988. 3.ANALYSIS OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND `CHRONICLE' DATA Victim data were computer-sorted along various parameters for assessment. It was sorted alphabetically by: 1 District 2. Year and Month (numerical sorting) 3. Type of offence 4. Surname and then first names of victim A process of counting rows, once this sorting was complete, made it possible for the computer to quantify offences in required ways. Data were sorted by district and offence for Table I, and were resorted by perpetrator, offence and year for Table II. Total numbers of offences exceeded total number of named victims, as the majority of victims suffered multiple injuries, such as loss of property and death, or detention and torture. If victims suffered injuries from more than one agency (ie 5 Brigade and CIO), then only the primary agency is counted as perpetrator. As mentioned previously, data from The Chronicle were kept separately, but were sorted and counted in the same way as other data. 75
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