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Electingto Rape:
Sexual Terrorin Mugabe’sZimbabwe
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Electingto Rape:
Sexual Terrorin Mugabe’sZimbabwe
The photographs contained in this report are not of the women whose testimony is included. However,because these are photographs of women survivorsfrom Zimbabwe, AIDS-Free World has made everyeffort to protect their identities by concealing their faces. AIDS-Free World also has removed identifyinginformation from the testimonial accounts contained inthis report so as to protect the identities of the womenwe interviewed.
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Electing to Rape: Sexual Terror in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe
Sections
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- Executive Summary
- An Organized Rape Campaign
- Mugabe’s brutal decades
- Maintaining Power with Violence
- Maintaining Power with Violence
- The present
- Testimony of Survivors
- Targeting of MDC women by ZANU-PF
- Attacks by ZANU-PF mobs
- Depravity and its aftermath
- Humiliation and degradation
- Escalations of torture and murder of families
- Sexual slavery
- Network of torture base camps
- Pattern of political language used by rapists
- Police support for ZANU-PF crimes
- Threats of intentional transmission of HIV
- Physical trauma
- Rape’s Corrosive Effects
- Psychological trauma
- Destruction of families
- Fertile Ground for Impunity
- Fertile Ground for Impunity
- Zimbabwe’s domestic laws are insufficient
- Command responsibility
- Prosecution in other African States
- Regional Tribunals
- The International Criminal Court
- Toward Accountability
- Recommendations for Action
- Anatomy of the Project
- Methodology
- Notes
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