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...Nobody is safe in Zimbabwe. There is no security, no rule of law. I am praying for my country." NELSON CHAMISA Zimbabwean opposition spokesman and M.P., after he was attacked and severely beaten by eight men alleged to be members of President Robert Mugabe's government intelligence agency
...five days last December, Zimbabwean officials jailed thesis researcher Amar C. Bakshi ’06 on charges of espionage. During his brush with authority, one thing he did not have to worry about was the safety of his interviewees.Long before, in Cambridge, Mass., Bakshi had worked with the Standing Committee on the Use of Human Subjects in Research, which reviewed his methods to make sure neither he nor his research subjects would be endangered.“When interrogated, I never divulged real names, and instead used the fictive names concocted beforehand,” said Bakshi...
When he chose to write his senior thesis on the Zimbabwean government’s manipulation of the media, Amar C. Bakshi ’06 never thought he’d be a target of the repressive regime himself.In late December, he traveled to the country’s capital to conduct research. But Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Organization alleged that he was “taking government information.” As he attempted to leave the country, intelligence officers pulled him off a plane and threw him in jail for five days...
...Africans who had been brought to the west because of the trans-Atlantic slave trade with the Africans currently in the continent. “There is no country in Africa that needs to be free. What we need to do now is consolidate our freedom,” Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe said in the documentary. “We must go a much further distance in uniting ourselves economically.” Blake drew parallels between the founders of the AU and the Continental Congress of the United States, as well as student advocates of the past, saying...
...Zimbabwean government, led by Robert G. Mugabe, is being increasingly isolated by the international community following accusations of human rights abuses...