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...State Department spokeswoman confirmed last week that the Zimbabwean government detained Amar C. Bakshi ’06 for five days while he was visiting the country during winter recess...
Bakshi was released on Jan. 3 after the Zimbabwean government dropped its charge of “removing information from the country,” Aggeler wrote...
Bakshi said the videocassettes he recorded of Zimbabwean national television, which he said were released by the government to drum up support for itself, were then returned...
...mile from the minister’s lush residence, thousands of ‘free’ Zimbabweans experience another form of violence. Still living in plastic tents after having been forcibly evicted from their homes by a nation-wide “Clean Up” campaign last year, they silence their criticisms of government for fear of further reprisals. One of the police officers who guards the camp might privately sympathize with the displaced, but has five children of his own and earns three million Zimbabwean dollars per month, about $30 US. School fees and rent consume...
...Zimbabwean people don’t buy this. Ask most passerbys what they think about President Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party and they’ll whisper urgently, “Be quiet!” They are all afraid of “getting into politics” and being marked as oppositional. Young people who criticize the government are called “sell-outs” and “white-sympathizers.” Roaming thugs beat them or send them on to the cops who, on a bad day, can lock...