Hilary Andersson (BBC): Zimbabwe's torture training camps

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From the BBC Online
Dated Friday February 27

Zimbabwe's torture training camps
By Hilary Andersson
BBC Africa correspondent

President Robert Mugabe's government has set up secret camps across the country in which thousands of youths are taught how to torture and kill, the BBC has learned.
The Zimbabwean government says the camps are job training centres, but those who have escaped say they are part of a brutal plan to keep Mugabe in power.
Former recruits to the camps have spoken to the BBC's Panorama programme about a horrific training programme that breaks young teenagers down before encouraging them to commit atrocities.
Members of the youth militia are warned never to tell of their experiences inside the camps, and many refuse to be identified when talking about their experiences.
However one girl, Debbie, claims she was kidnapped and forced into a camp - where she was raped on her very first night.

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