It was a spectacular bid for freedom - five soldiers of the Zimbabwe army's mounted unit, galloping to the South African border, abandoning horses, arms and uniforms, and crossing the border in search of a new life and freedom from repression and poverty.
But it was a bid that ended in failure - and the families of the five young men believe it may have also ended in death. Death by torture, at the hands of Mugabe's secret police.
The soldiers made their dash for freedom in Febuary but were picked up almost immediately by the South African authorities and returned to the Zimbabwe security forces, who incarcerated them in Harare's infamous Chikurubi high-security prison....
The suspicion is that they were eventually tortured to death...An article about Mugabe's torture camps is HERE...
... He pointed a shaky finger. "That building there, we call it Baghdad. That's where we learn how to torture people."
Both of us were frightened - him because he was an inmate of one of Mugabe's youth terror camps. Me because I was in the Mushagashe Youth Training Centre illicitly, posing, thanks to a Zanu PF friend, as a member of an inspection committee....(article goes on to describe torture).
Another article describing Zimbabwe's prisons is here...
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