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June 9, 2008

Mugabe's Brutality to Force Election Victory Is Revealed

by Anne Penketh, Independent, UK - The Zimbabwean army and police have been accused of setting up torture camps and organising "re-education meetings" involving unspeakable cruelty where voters are beaten and mutilated in the hope of achieving victory for President Robert Mugabe in the second round of the presidential election.

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This grim report is very real. I was sent pictures of victims this disgusting operation from a colleague in Zimbabwe. I could not bring myself to post them here. It is very hard to believe that the world would allow this to go on. The run-off election is a joke. Everything I've learned about Robert Mugabe points to the obvious conclusion that the results of this election and the many others that happened in the past were both rigged and voters were coerced in the most abusive ways imaginable, just as they are being coerced now. What is our responsibility as a nation now that we know this is happening?

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