{"id":240376,"date":"2026-08-05T07:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T05:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-still-no-accountability-for-zimbabwes-2018-abuses\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T07:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T05:47:15","slug":"zimbabwe-still-no-accountability-for-zimbabwes-2018-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-still-no-accountability-for-zimbabwes-2018-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Still No Accountability for Zimbabwe&#8217;s 2018 Abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\"><em>End Culture of Impunity; Implement Commission&#8217;s Recommendations<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Eight years on, justice is still elusive for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2018\/08\/03\/zimbabwe-least-6-dead-post-election-violence\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">families of 6 people<\/a> killed and the 35 injured by Zimbabwe state security forces during the August 1, 2018, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/protests-erupt-in-zimbabwe-over-delayed-election-results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"71\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2018\/08\/03\/zimbabwe-least-6-dead-post-election-violence\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Witnesses at the time told<\/a> Human Rights Watch that military officers and anti-riot police used excessive and lethal force against people who were protesting delayed election results on the streets of Harare, the capital. Security forces indiscriminately fired live&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608050053.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>End Culture of Impunity; Implement Commission&#8217;s Recommendations Eight years on, justice is still elusive for the families of 6 people killed and the 35 injured by Zimbabwe state security forces during the August 1, 2018, protests. Witnesses at the time told Human Rights Watch that military officers and anti-riot police used excessive and lethal force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[8396,13948,258,256,257,254,4686,421,7726],"class_list":["post-240376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-abuses","tag-accountability","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}