The footage makes for uncomfortable viewing. Sobbing almost uncontrollably, her whole body heaving as she spoke, Zimbabwe’s youngest MP relived her ordeal at the hands of men she is convinced were agents of the state. Arrested for having the temerity to take part in an anti-government protest on May 13, Joana Mamombe says she was taken into a forest and thrown into a pit with her fellow detainees, two female members of the opposition’s MDC Alliance. For the best part of 36 hours, the women were allegedly beaten, sodomised with handguns and forced to drink each other’s urine. For many Zimbabweans, the allegations levelled by Ms Mamombe, 27, carry overtones of the presidency of Robert Mugabe, who was ousted in a coup in 2017 and died last September. Mugabe’s overthrow, it was hoped, would end the abductions, beatings and extrajudicial killings that characterised both his early and later years.
from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3d7ld5l
Comments
Post a Comment