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Zimbabwe: Mugabe troops use rape as weapon
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by LotusFlower | June 20, 2008 at 12:02 pm
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As the opposition party contemplates withdrawing from the election for President more stories of victimisation of people supporting political opponents of Mugabe surface.
It was night when the soldiers came for Erica Okama. By the time they released her seven hours later she had been savagely beaten and raped by 10 uniformed men.First around 30 troops surrounded her simple home, some of them climbing over the walls and leaping inside in a commando-style assault.
Then they started to beat her three sons, all of them in their 20s, until she emerged from the bedroom where she had sought refuge and told them: "Leave my kids, it's me who is participating in the MDC so leave my kids."
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LotusFlower
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at 00:18 on June 23rd, 2008
LotusFlower, thank you for highlighting this. Rape has long been used as a tool of war, but it's something that the international community does not take seriously enough (in my opinion).