This story is a plea for awareness and action on behalf of the people of Zimbabwe in conjunction with Amnesty International I urge all readers to pass this on as these people are suffering. Surely some one or some group can help them. A young man who is a former Central Intelligence Agent in Zimbabwe fled his country after being taught to torture and kill his own countrymen.. He claims that he was recruited at a National Youth Service Training Camp.While at camp. he was approached by a group of men who drove a black Mercedes Benz. All the young man knew of his Country’s secret service at that time was that they protected the sovereignty of Zimbabwe, yet he feared them. The young man needed money and accepted their offer. As part of his training; he was told along with several others that he would be learning torture techniques. In a room with no windows, the trainees were all given a cup of gin and made to smoke marijuana. A man was thrown into the room and the trainees were told to beat him and that it was a random beating. The trainees beat the man and kicked him until he was bleeding and stopped. The training agents asked why they stopped and they were made to continue. The trainees were then given a drug in pill form that induced rage and a second man was thrown into the room. They put him on a desk and beat his feet until they turned black.The man who could no longer walk collapsed. A third man was sent in and they poured water on him and took turns shocking him until he fell on his face smelling like burned meat. They mutilated the next man with a screwdriver and pliers, the description is so graphic I could not print it here but it is printed on the The trainees were later made to take a locked trunk to a lake. at the lake they found the keys to the trunk with a bag of cement and instructions. When they opened the trunk they found a man still alive, beaten bleeding and tongue cut out. they were told to put the cement into the trunk and drown the man in the trunk. The young man who told this story did not want to do this but they were being watched by camouflaged soldiers. Somehow after this event the young man who tells this story managed to escape,he cries himself to sleep every night as his conscience and memories haunt him. This is one of the many accounts of the violence in post election Zimbabwe. There are news reports of 84yr. old grandmas being axed in the head, people burned repeatedly with flaming plastic, people murdered in front of their families and villages burned. Awareness is the first step to action my prayer is that help will come for these people.
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Artwork by Pamela Baker
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I am in pain. My body hurts, my eyes are filled with tears. Hundreds of years, thousands of years…who are we? What have we done to humanity? How has man lost his soul, his heart? Why do we still live in a world of barbarians?
How can this be? Why is it so? So many questions but no answers…
I weep and I pray…
Excellent post my friend. I will share with my students.
Thanks for publishing this piece Pamela. It shows that evil is alive and flourishing on planet earth.
Thanks for your prayers and writing this post about the sad situation in Zimbabwe. It is important that this brutality, violence, torture and killing of innocent civilians is being exposed for the whole world to see.
My only problem is nobody seems to be able to help, even with all the pictures and videos of victims of violence in Zimbabwe.
Check my blog and you will see more of the violence against innocent villagers.
I could go on and on……………just because I’m so angry about Robert Mugabe and all his friends.
Quite a gruesome story, Pam. Can’t recall reading one nearly as bad as this.
I read similar article also named ervice training camp teaches torture! at The Village Stream, and it was completely different. Personally, I agree with you more, because this article makes a little bit more sense for me
it made me feel that we have to work harder to maintain peace in the world.
Hey - it’s great to see human rights getting coverage in the blogosphere.
Last summer Nelson Mandela brought a group of really dedicated individuals together - ex heads of state and Nobel laureates - to work on solving global issues. His hope for the new group, The Elders, is for them to “speak freely and boldly, working both publicly and behind the scenes on whatever actions need to be taken”. They’re working on topics ranging from the crisis in Zimbabwe to rising food costs and they want your help.
There are so many issues in dire need of attention right now, but human rights ties them all together. The Elders launched the Every Human Has Rights campaign to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and celebrate human rights as that common thread that weaves our struggles and our victories together.
We’re asking the blogosphere to take part. Would you be willing to add a link from your page to the Every Human Has Rights website? We also have badges and flash widgets so bloggers can show support for the campaign.
We’re trying to get as many people as possible to sign a personal pledge to uphold the principles of the Universal Declaration. We have action partners to help people get more involved. We have tools so people can bring the ‘rights perspective’ to their own organization’s events. We’re doing everything we can to bring people together to stand up for human rights.
We need bloggers. We need you. Please join our effort.
All the best,
Carly Scott
Every Human Has Rights,
campaign team
http://www.everyhumanhasrights.org
I cannot understand why Blair and Bush concentrated so much on Saddam and not on Mugabe. Could it have simply been the oil?
henry