Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and the Legal Resources...

Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and the Legal Resources Foundation wanted the Supreme Court to order Mugabe's office to release the reports of two commissions of inquiry he appointed: one of these covered mass executions, disappearances, illegal arrests and brutality committed almost exclusively on members of the Ndebele tribe, by the Zimbabwe army, particularly the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade and Mugabe's secret police in the mid-eighties. A private study carried out jointly by the LRF and the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe estimated that up to 8,000 people were butchered.