By Winifred Bulus
Zimbabwe Human Rights Association, ZimRights, have criticised the country’s first lady’s dehumanization of 15 families in the country.
This was after the police forced members of a community off Arnold farm in Mazowe, a village in Mashonaland Central province in Zimbabwe.
The members of the community lost their lands and homes to the country’s first lady, Grace Mugabe, who intends to use if for a wild life park.
The ZimRights also condemned the violent method of evicting the locals which is against the country’s human rights constitution and the government’s failure in providing a substitute homes for the locals.
“The fact that the police, who are supposed to uphold the Constitution and the rulings of the courts, are in the forefront of violating them, is a travesty of justice.
“The fact that evictions that violate human rights are allegedly being spearheaded by the First Lady, Grace Mugabe, is a serious abrogation of the rule of law, accountability, constitutionalism and democracy in the country,” they observed.
The first lady and her family own several pieces of land which they acquires after the violent land confiscation in the country and recently seized 22 hectares of land from small scale miners for the expansion of the first lady’s business.