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...legs with iron bars and left him for dead in a ditch. "Tsvangirai," he says, "can say what he wants, but it's just talk. The people who beat me still walk freely around here." A short drive away, in Chiveso, Gabriel Mangurenje, 39, says he has been beaten out of his home by ZANU mobs five times since 2000 and has lost two brothers, both MDC activists, to the violence. "Of course we want to see a peaceful approach," he says, "but we also want to see light at the end of the tunnel...
...past decade, Zimbabwe has become a repository of stories of the nightmarish and grotesque. The southern African nation is (or should be) a place of plenty, a former food exporter that was ruined, beaten and starved by the ineptitude, corruption and paranoia of its aging dictator, a liberation hero who led Zimbabwe to independence but - in a familiar African refrain - came to personify all the tragedy and broken promise of a continent. I'd had my own brief disaster there in April 2007, when, the day after I arrived, the subject of my very first interview asked me to wait...
Siti Hajar's face - scarred with red blisters and scabs - told of the horror. For the past three years, the 33-year-old Indonesian domestic worker from West Java says she was abused by her Malaysian employer, being beaten, doused with boiling water and caned. In June, the ongoing violence finally landed her in a Kuala Lumpur-based hospital. Photos of her burned face, distributed by Indonesian television stations and newspapers, sparked outrage throughout the country, prompting Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to make a personal call to her as she recovered in the hospital...
...Nazis still pose some threats, however. In May, a newsletter of the international development charity Voluntary Service Overseas reported allegations that two Peace Corps volunteers were "severely beaten" outside a pub after a confrontation with Dayar Mongol members. (Erdenebileg denies his group's involvement.) One 25-year-old American living in Ulan Bator, who didn't wish to be named, said he was accosted by neo-Nazis at a nightclub for cavorting with a Mongolian woman. "After they showed a swastika, my initial thought was, This isn't going to be a normal fight," he says. "They wanted to send...
...country's trade union movement in 1997, a group of men thought to be from Zimbabwe's secret service burst into his 10th-floor offices in Harare and tried to hurl him through a window. Since then, he has faced three more attempts on his life, been repeatedly beaten and arrested, and has seen Mugabe steal two elections from him, in 2002 and 2008. On March 6, less than a month after he became Prime Minister, his wife of 31 years, Susan, was killed when a car in which he was also traveling collided with a truck. He spoke...