More than two years into Zimbabwe’s so-called “inclusive government,” events like this comment from a recent Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights update are telling:

The Officer Commanding Harare Central District, Chief Superintendent G. Gwangava, is attempting to unlawfully and unprocedurally block a Peace Rally set for Saturday 19 March 2011, organized by the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T). Legal action is underway to ensure the rally goes ahead as planned.

The MDC is a partner in the inclusive government. The Prime Minister of Zimbabwe is the President of the MDC. The MDC shares responsibility for the Ministry of Home Affairs which , theoretically at least, oversees the police. But Police Commissioner Chihuri reports directly to Robert Mugabe, and human rights and civic freedoms are barely any more respected than they were two years ago.

Read the GPA again and remind me about the Zimbabwe it was Supposed to have fostered?

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