Zimbabwe: Mugabe faces class action lawsuit over massacres

Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and the Legal Resources Foundation are contemplating a class action to compel Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to publish findings of investigations into military atrocities against civilians in Matabeleland in the 1980s. A spokesperson for the two human rights groups said they were still collecting signatures from victims of an alleged genocidal campaign in Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland and Midlands provinces that claimed the lives of an estimated 20 000 people in five years.