Late Night Zim-Post: Fodder for Insomnia

A BBC report investigates the lasting impact of the massacres in Matabeleland in the mid-1980s, carried out by Mugabe’s Fifth Brigade, an elite security force trained in North Korea. Mugabe’s attempt to deal with about 500 supporters of his main rival at the time, Joshua Nkoma, became a campaign characteristic of ethnic cleansing, in which at least 20,000 members of the Ndebele population were murdered. (Mugabe and most of his security forces are Shona.) Many of the deaths occurred in a concentration camp set up by the Fifth Brigade.

Sadly, this is but one of many examples of Mugabe’s use of violence to consolidate power.

In the Washington Post tonight: A group of ZANU-PF youths killed 11 opposition supporters.