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Torture: What about Bob?
Interesting story in the New York Times tonight about Zimbabwe's thug strongman Robert Mugabe:
JOHNANNESBURG — Jestina Mukoko, a well-known human rights campaigner in Zimbabwe, was forced to kneel on gravel for hours and was beaten on the soles of her feet with rubber truncheons during interrogations, she said in a sworn statement recently submitted to a court in Zimbabwe.
Chris Dhlamini, an aide to Zimbabwe's opposition leader and prime minister in waiting, Morgan Tsvangirai, said in an affidavit that his head was pushed down into a sink full of water until he believed that he would drown.
They are among more than a dozen activists who say they were tortured to obtain false confessions after they were abducted and detained for weeks in secret locations by agents of President Robert Mugabe's government.
Detaining people in secret locations, simulated drowning, making prisoners hold stress positions for hours -- it's all really bad stuff. Don't you want to live in a nation that has the moral authority to condemn these hideous practices? I know I do. Once upon a time, I did.