Must be coup because there is no cholera here.
"Rape was political weapon, report says; Violence against foes of Zimbabwe president decried" by Celean Jacobson, Associated Press | December 11, 2009
JOHANNESBURG - Supporters of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe used rape to terrorize the political opposition during last year’s contested elections, international human rights activists said yesterday.
AIDS-Free World, led by former UNAIDS envoy Stephen Lewis, released a 64-page report that documents 380 rapes it said were committed by Mugabe loyalists. Some 70 women linked to Zimbabwe’s opposition detailed to the group how they were raped, kept as sex slaves, and forced to watch their daughters being raped.
Hard for me to comment since AmeriKa is the world champ in rapes and domestic violence; however, NO ONE is FOR RAPE!!!!
Ten became pregnant, and many believe they were infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. “These women were raped because they were politically defiant,’’ said Betsy Apple, the organization’s legal director. “It was meant to punish them and their communities.’’
Btw, where are Aafia Siddiqui's children, anyway?
Efforts to get comment from Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party were not successful yesterday.
Groups monitoring the March 2008 elections reported scores of deaths and thousands of illegal arrests, assaults, and rapes by militias operating in cities and out of countryside camps....
“The politically orchestrated and systematic campaign of sexual violence unleashed against women who supported the opposition carves yet another chapter in the annals of Robert Mugabe’s legacy of depravity,’’ Lewis said. The rapes documented by Lewis’s organization began in 2007 but increased dramatically in 2008.
All of the women said their rapists were clearly identifiable as ZANU-PF supporters. Many arrived at the women’s homes late at night wearing party T-shirts or singing party songs. “When the 10th man finished raping me they said they were going to rape my daughter . . . My daughter was 5 years old,’’ one woman told interviewers.
Activists are calling on the international community to help ensure perpetrators are brought to justice. The group fears the victims’ stories will be lost as the world throws support behind the unity government.
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Too bad for Mugabe he is no longer in favor with the West; otherwise, these crimes would have been ignored by the MSM. As it is, they are still a one-day wonder in my Boston Globe. Mugabe must be doing his part for the Israeli smuggling operation in the region.
So that's what was behind the "pirate" charade -- protecting Israeli weapons shipments!
