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Life Gets Worse in Zimbabwe

Torture at the hands of Robert Mugabe's Central Intelligence Organisation

***Warning: this audio contains descriptions of torture***

Fergal Keane on the torture Zimbabweans face if they oppose the government, and describes what happened to opposition MP Job Sikala and human rights lawyer Gabriel Shumba at the hands of Robert Mugabe's Central Intelligence Organisation in Zimbabwe.

Also in the programme: how Saddam Hussein is trying to strengthen his power base, US forces in Kuwait, Bali after the bomb and the spire of Dublin tourist attraction.

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26 minutes

成人快手 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project