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By Alex Bell 30 April 2012 A new report on Transitional Justice in Zimbabwe was launched in London on Monday, focusing on the expectations of the Diaspora. The report is the first since a Diaspora Outreach programme was launched in 2010 by the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, which has been spearheading initiatives to garner public opinion on transitional justice options. Since 2003 the Forum has been conducting a serious of meetings at grassroots level and has published two reports on taking transitional justice to the people. These consultations were then broadened in 2010 to include Diaspora communities across the world. The Diaspora Outreach workshops have been aimed at getting the opinions of victims of human rights abuses at the hands of the Robert Mugabe regime, who fled to places like the UK. The meetings allowed people to state how they want justice to be served on the many perpetrators who have never been punished for their abuses. The Forum has said that such meetings are particularly critical now, because the process of a writing a new constitution is still underway. The group said the new report “presents new opportunities to build on the (previous) consultations as the nation struggles for justice, accountability and healing.”