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Podcast: Ensuring Safety and Security for Human Rights Defenders (2024)
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Silika, K. (in press). Podcast: Ensuring Safety and Security for Human Rights Defenders. [Podcast]

In this episode, host Mantate Mlotshwa speaks with Dr. Keith Silika about the challenges facing human rights defenders in Zimbabwe. Dr. Silika, an expert in policing and forensic analysis, discusses the current climate for activists, strategies for p... Read More about Podcast: Ensuring Safety and Security for Human Rights Defenders.

State crimes in Zimbabwe, from Mugabe to the new dispensation, a case of old wine in different bottles. (2023)
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Silika, K. (2023). State crimes in Zimbabwe, from Mugabe to the new dispensation, a case of old wine in different bottles

When the November 2017 coup occurred in Zimbabwe, there was a pseudo renewed optimism and euphoria over new prospects for the country. Zimbabwe, a former British colony, had lived in the perpetual shadow of Robert Mugabe, the man who had ruled the co... Read More about State crimes in Zimbabwe, from Mugabe to the new dispensation, a case of old wine in different bottles..

Gukurahundi Mass Graves (2020)
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Silika, K. Gukurahundi Mass Graves

In this podcast, I offer an overview of mass graves in Zimbabwe and forensics opportunities around the search and the missing