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...bursts. Other youths say they were trained to hold victims' heads under water, or to force them to sit on ants' nests. Many of those who escaped the camps say there are rooms set aside for torture. Almost 100 escapees have so far been interviewed by the BBC and Zimbabwean human-rights groups. Based on interviews with escapees, human-rights groups estimate that at least half the girls in the camps are regularly raped. A former government official from Zimbabwe's Ministry of Youth, Gender and Employment Creation says the rape is seen by some at the camps as part...
...country where good news has been a rare commodity in recent years, Zimbabweans could scarcely believe their luck last week when the police and courts allowed the Daily News, the country's only independent daily newspaper, to publish for the first time in four months. It was the same day South African President Thabo Mbeki told visiting German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder that Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF government would resume talks with the embattled opposition. "I am quite certain they will negotiate and will find an agreement. We will work with them," Mbeki said...
...high court in Harare. The party argued that Mugabe's victory is invalid because the government packed the electoral commission with its supporters, reopened voter registration without telling the MDC and limited the number of polling stations in cities, where the opposition is strongest. But almost nobody expects a Zimbabwean court to rule against Mugabe, and the MDC's real audience will be in South Africa, where President Thabo Mbeki has been one of the President's most faithful apologists. "As long as Mugabe thinks he is being supported by his African brothers, he will see himself as a victim...
Intimidation of opponents, a feature of the parliamentary elections in 2000 and the presidential elections of 2002, is still rife. The Zimbabwean presidential election was, as U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said, blatantly stolen. So were the 2000 elections, but less overtly...
South Africa could end the Zimbabwean political charade quickly by easing Mugabe, 79, into exile with some of his ill-gotten wealth. Perhaps he could join Charles G. Taylor, the ex-dictator of Liberia, in Nigeria. But South Africa is reluctant to interfere, and President Bush and Secretary Powell’s pressure on South Africa and criticisms of Zimbabwe have produced promises, but no action. It is not clear when South Africa will decide, on behalf of the African Union, that Zimbabwe’s meltdown has harmed South Africa and embarrassed the democrats of Africa sufficiently to produce...