On Monday they met the government to discuss how it can protect them from threats from the war veterans. But he added that the war veterans were not part of government and that he could not offer any gaurantees of safety to members of the judiciary. With the executive and judiciary at loggerheads, eyebrows are being raised abroad. Last week, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Dato' Param Cumaraswamy, expressed grave concern over threats to the independence of the judiciary. He drew the Zimbabwean government's attention to Principle 2 of the United Nations Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary which obliges the judiciary to decide matters before them impartially.
Some observers say that the government is now choosing to disregard any land that it disagrees with.
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