By A Correspondent- Addressing the media in the capital Harare Tuesday, Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo said the police was an independent organ of the state which dealt with situations using their own independent analysis.

He was responding to a question on government’s position regarding the recent statement by the EU diplomatic missions in Zimbabwe urging government to recognise and stop violating its citizens’ human rights including the right to peaceful protest.

This followed the brutal attack of peaceful protesters in Harare last Friday by the police which left scores nursing injuries

Said Moyo:

“Yes, i have just heard about it. But it is their independent position…. Sanctions are outdated as SADC, AU has said.

The police is an independent organ of the state which deals with situations as they would have accessed. Whether the ZRP used excessive force or commensurate force is always an issue that can be debated.. it is really a subjective matter.

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