From The Times: Eight Days Of Fear In Mugabe's Machine
He may be aged, isolated and facing economic ruin, but Robert Mugabe still clings to power thanks to a feared state security apparatus that continues to function across Zimbabwe.
As the 84-year-old leader marked nearly three decades in power yesterday with a defiant speech against Britain, the Africa correspondent of The Times recalled, just 48 hours after his release from jail, his experiences of Mr Mugabe’s ruthless regime.
Jonathan Clayton spent eight days imprisoned in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second city, where he was interrogated, beaten and tortured by a senior officer in the feared Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO). He was eventually released after paying a Z$20 billion fine, about £200, for misleading an immigration officer.
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Update: Full Zimbabwe Crisis Coverage -- Times Online
Update 2: Zimbabwe Recounts Ballot In 23 Constituencies -- Times Online
Update #3: Mugabe warns 'British Thieves' To Leave His Country Alone -- The Independent
Update #4: Chinese Troops Are On The Streets Of Zimbabwean City, Witnesses Say -- The Independent
Update #5: Mugabe's Prisoner -- Newsweek
Update #6: Zimbabwe Weapons Ship Headed For Angola -- CNN
Update #7: Annan Demands Action On Zimbabwe -- BBC News
My Comment: If Mugabe was a white man, the world will be screaming for bloody murder.
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