Schori said the Africans were on the observer mission as part of the EU's programme to support democracy and governance in Africa. He said the EU regularly sponsored teams from Africa to monitor elections across the world so that Africans could learn from other democracies. The campaign had uprooted thousands from their homes while others were beaten and maimed, he said. The level of violence is shocking. People have been thrown into the biggest scare of their lives.
People are scared.
And they are more scared because the people committing or spearheading the violence have been imported from outside the region. The EU, Commonwealth, Organisation of African Unity, the Southern Africa Development Community, and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa have sent observer teams to Zimbabwe to monitor the campaign and elections themselves.