As previously reported in FOCUS, the regime's tactics of intimidation and harrassment have continued unchanged since the signing of the internal settlement agreement. The names of over 650 people arrested since March 1978 under the emergency regulations and other security laws are now known to IDAF. While this is certainly not a complete list, it gives an idea of the scale of police and security force operations. Some of those arrested have been held under short term detention orders (30 and 60 days) and subsequently released; others have been charged and appeared in court under the Law and Order (Maintenance) Act; others have simply disappeared without trace.
Many claims for compensation are known to be outstanding, from Africans whose property - blankets, clothing, houses, granaries and their contents, bedding, vehicles, household utensils etc. - has been destroyed or burnt by the security forces. Cases known to IDAF include that of a businessman alleging that property was removed from his store by men who described themselves as "boys in the bush". They were later identified as security force members when they raped girls. In another case, a 15-year-old girl who had a leg amputated after being shot by security forces following a contact with guerillas, was refused an artificial limb on the grounds that she had been "assisting terrorists".
