Zimbabwe and Torture

Mugabe has ruined Zim. A country that was a food exporter, had one of the highest literacy rates in Africa. A country with a good economy. White farmers were forced to leave, now the country can no longer feed itself. Now this:

THE beating stopped as the sun began to go down. After two-and-a-half hours, the fourteen men and one woman held at Matapi police station in Mbare township, Harare, had suffered five fractured arms, seven hand fractures, two sets of ruptured eardrums, fifteen cases of severe buttock injuries, deep soft-tissue bruising all over, and open lacerations.

The 15 included Wellington Chibebe, the leader of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), and senior officials of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.

“As a case of police brutality on a group, it is the worst I’ve ever seen,” a doctor who helped to attend to them said. Read More.

HT: Captains Quarters.

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Tags: Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe