Police Brutality (2000 Elections)

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For years Zanzibaris have experienced serious human rights violations but most of the events have not been caught in cameras. But the atrocities committed by police before and after the 2000 elections have been well documented. Some pictures showing police brutality in the 2000 elections are presented here.

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A victim of police shootings on a CUF campaign rally at Kilimahewa, Zanzibar, October 11, 2000. Five CUF supporters: Mohamed Masoud (27), Mohamed Alawi Mohamed (30), Khamis Juma Amiri (27), Seif Faki Ibrahim (27), and Abdalla Hassan Ali (30) were shot at by police with live ammunition at close range. Abdalla Hassan was shot at his buttocks and was critically wounded.

More victims of the Kilimahewa police shootings.

A victim of police shooting during the January 27, 2001 nation-wide CUF demonstrations. This victim, Rashid Bakari, had to flee to Kenya after he was denied medical treatment in Pemba. Here he is being examined at Msambweni Hospital in Kenya by officials from the Commission for Human Rights for Justice (CHRI), awaiting amputation of his left leg.

A group of refugees, including babies, children and women ponder their fate upon arrival at Shimoni in the Kenyan South Coast after fleeing the violence in Zanzibar and Pemba. Some 169 refugees including four Members of Parliament of the Civic United Front (CUF) fled to Kenya between Jan 27, 2001 an Jan 31, 2001.

This innocent young man, Gharib Salim Said of Hurumzi, Zanzibar, had his life terminated by Tanzanian police officers who shot and killed him on Jan 27, 2001.

Gharib Salim Hamad Baalawy, a victim of government sponsored Jan 27, 2001 massacre

Tanzanian Police officers assaulting civilians

More Tanzanian police officers assaulting civilians

Innocent civilian is assaulted by the Tanzanian Police officers

Tanzanian Police officers assaulting an innocent woman who is actually mentally disabled.

Tanzanian Police officers beating innocent civilians

Heavily armed soldiers even with rocket-launchers terrorising civilians in Zanzibar

Police officers demolish a house searching for a civilian in his home suspected as being an opposition supporter

Opposition member seriously beaten by police officers

Innocent civilians thrown in a truck like garbage

Disappointed voters waiting for voting materials which never showed up!!

Most of these never casted their votes!!

This is how they terrorize innocent civilians

They beat everyone at opposition strong hold.

Kids are crying while their father displays the wounds inflicted by brutal Tanzanian police officers.