Murder, Torture and Teen Rape: The Price of Opportunity in Zimbabwe

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AS A member of team Charlie Four, Washington Mabada was taught to strike a victim so he fell to the floor paralysed, ordered to rape a teenage girl and help construct a concrete "jacket" for a member of the opposition.

Casual murder, extreme violence and the meting out of degrading punishments were all part of the day's work for the graduate of Robert Mugabe's torture academy.

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Murder, Torture and Teen Rape: The Price of Opportunity in Zimbabwe

Despite his training and his newly-comfortable lifestyle, Mabada, who was recruited as a poverty-stricken teenager with four siblings to feed, dreamed of escape away from his Zimbabwean handlers. Last December, having earned their trust, he boarded a bus to neighbouring Botswana and is now in hiding in Namibia. Although being hunted by the Zimbabwean dictato...

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