Dear Editor, I HAVE read the Zambian chapter of the Amnesty International Report 2021.In my view, the report presents some relatively fair reporting. I think that Government did not even need to respond through a press briefing. Most governments don’t do so, but merely take corrective action, where need be.Perusal of chapters for democracies such as UK, U.S, France, Italy, etc., shows that repression is a common denominator. In fact, repression is worse in countries that on the face of it we consider model democracies.For example, the U.S. is a model democracy, so they say. However perusal of the Amnesty report U.S chapter shows that in the last one year, at least 1, 000 people were killed by racist police using firearms.Black people get disproportionately killed by police use of lethal force to the extent where by government does not even track how many such deaths occur annually; no state laws governing the use of lethal […]
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT ON ZAMBIA IS UNFAIR
