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On Zimbabwe Terrors

Posted by Ben on June 19, 2008 at 7:45 a.m. in News
Tags: news zimbabwe
Zimbabwe braces for its runoff election, and massive violence hangs in the balance.

From a BBC News correspondent in Zimbabwe under deep cover:

Anyone who has been actively involved in opposition politics can be assumed to be a target of the sinister gangs which come at night, dragging people from their beds for a savage beating or sometimes worse.

Truly, spectacularly horrifying. And it wasn't easy to get the report. A glimpse:

His car blocked ours. He got out with three other men, striding towards us, wearing a T-shirt with two Kalashnikovs and Robert Mugabe's face printed on it.

We were in trouble.


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