Political violence is either the deliberate infliction or threat of infliction of physical injury or damage for political ends, or is violence which occurs unintentionally in the cause of severe political conflicts. Political violence is particularly difficult to classify and analyze because it frequently involves the interaction and effects of the actions of many persons and collectives, with widely different motivations and attitudes. Most like the political violence that we see now in Zambia serves both instrumental and expressive factions simultaneously . Almost invariably , the “price” of relaying a message of terror to a “ target audience ‘ is the death , injury or dispossession of victims whose rights and liberties have been arbitrarily curtailed by the perpetrators of violence.