France 24 TV
Friday 19 December 2008
By ALEX DUVAL SMITH – CAROLINE DUMAY – GRAHAM WALSH (video)
Thirty years since Zimbabwe’s liberation and Robert Mugabe’s regime is still on the same warpath. Today’s enemy is the political opposition, accused of being western puppets. Human rights activists are the regime’s new target.
Senator David Coltart, human rights lawyer declares: “In the last month or so almost 20 people have been abducted and nobody knows who they are.
“We have obtained court judgments compelling the government to release them. They deny they are holding them but we cannot find them and we know they were last seen in the hands of state operatives.â€
They fear the latest disappearances are the cynical endgame of a regime seeking to silence those who know too much.