Zimbabwe's jail likened to death camp - 02 Apr 09

Secretly recorded footage has emerged showing horrific conditions inside a Zimbabwean prison, where inmates are deprived of food and medical care.

Roy Bennett, an official in Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party, has likened conditions in Zimbabwe's prisons to Nazi death camps.

Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith reports.

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[DarwinianResults9684]

Hey i thought Mugabe was freeing the black people from the Tyrannical evil white people. It must be so much better there now, for example wonder how many people died from malnutrition during white colonial rule. Starving to death in a feces covered concrete hole is obviously prefereable to working for what you earn for some evil white guy who makes more food in one year than the entire region can eat. Ah yes somehow it must make sense, after all, it's a black government isn't it?

[mckayser]

hope for zimbabwe that mugabe will die soon

[ukusapillage]

the diff between white dictator and black onje is that a black one is black and thug and white one usually makes its country better and fucks other countrys not its own, blacks fuck their own people for cash, blacks are uncapable of rulling anything

[CabronDioz]

This is what happens when a incompetent black government ruled by a fucking monkey like Mugabe gets to lead a country. The motherfucker deserves no less than hell, and the people who support him are solely responsible for the terrible state of Rhodesia. Fuck Zimbabwe.

[chepe371]

@DarwinianResults9684 no pun intended but its not so "black and white"

[The3in1trinity]

It truly shocks 2c ppl suffering like this. The blame can clearly b laid at the feet of Mugabe who is no different 2the white colonialists. He has treated the country as his own property+due 2his arrogance+megalomania has brought the country 2 it's knees. Although under colonialism the country was prosperous, it was only 4 white ppl's benefit. Now under mugabe the country can't even feed itself+he allows no dissent. I pray sights of ppl dying 4lack of medicine will soon end when Mugabe ends!

[The3in1trinity]

@Moralvorstellung28 A dictator is a dictator in any language or colour. U clearly imply that because Mugabe is black then the country should run well. He is a dictator, nothing more nothing less. The ppl of the country don't run Zimbabwe, Mugabe+those who r related 2him by tribal allegiance. Only when (hopefully like Morgan Tsvangirai or similar) with real love 4ppl will this country b able 2experience the potential it has+deserves, then ppl dying 4 want of medicine will b at an end!

[The3in1trinity]

Sadly, many governments in Africa have been unwilling 2 use force 2 throw out Mugabe or even condemn him except with mild rebukes. I suspect that the other dictators in African countries don't want 2 much attention focussed on themselves so keep as quiet as possible. As a black man born in Toxteth, Liverpool, U.K. i find it ironic that these EX freedom fighters of the past r no less brutal as their white predecessors. I pray that TSVANGIRAI gains control + brings about positive change.

[Moralvorstellung28]

@drewdonham What happened to their economy? The blacks were handed over control of it, and that's all that needs to be said. This is black industriousness at it's finest hour.

[MrSAYNOTOGMO]

Zimbabwean dollar and us dollar are equal in 1980 but now ????why??????who's benefit ????? who is the devil?????? zimbabwe you have been played by economic HITMAN . Do some research about how the economic HITMAN work, protect yourself

[ArmenOfTheNorth]

they wanted independence---they received independence

[drewdonham]

@dollycarcass no shit! This is fucked UP!!! You have cowards over here in the us fighting to stop the death penalty for people who have volunarily taken other peoples lives without remorse and over in zimbabwe u get sentenced to death by starvation for stealing something you were gonna sell to EAT! WOW. WE HAVE ALOT OF MEDIA HERE ASKING TO HELP JAPAN EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS, NEVER ONCE HAVE I SEEN ANYTHING ABOUT zimbabwe or wtf happened with their economy