Mugabe's rape militia

Sunday Times:

Dozens of teenage girls have been made pregnant after being taken into the bush and raped in torture camps by President Robert Mugabe’s youth militia operating near Mudzi, a town 100 miles northeast of Harare, human rights workers allege.

Amid the continuing chaos, there are as yet no clear statistics, but the sharp rise in teenage pregnancies seems almost certain to have been repeated elsewhere in rural districts. Some of the victims will have contracted HIV-Aids, which has ravaged Zimbabwe for years and helped reduce average life expectancy to 34 for women, the lowest in the world.

The raped girls are the silent victims of Mugabe’s stolen election. Their suffering has been surrounded by silence owing to the stigma and shame of rape.

“It is a particularly brutal and disturbing element of the months of violence, and its after effects will be felt by these girls and their families long after the rest of the terror sweeping the country has died away,” said one human rights worker. “Some of the girls will never recover.”

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The depths of depravity of Mugabe and his supporters has still found no bottom they want sink below. It must be part of an African tradition since the despots in the Sudan use the same tactic.

Will NOW speak out on this? Probably not. They are the same women who rallied around Bill Clinton. They are mainly spokesman for liberalism. African women and teenage girls are not on their radar screen. That is too bad.