Sex slaves in Zimbabwe youth militias
The Los Angeles Times has a report on sex slaves being held in bases in Zimbabwe.
From the LA Times:
She has to call the young men her “comrades.” She cooks food for the comrades and serves them. She sweeps the comrades’ floor and cleans up after them.
And whenever any of the comrades want sex, she is raped.
Asiatu, 21, is a prisoner of the comrades at a command base of the ruling ZANU-PF party, one of 900 such camps set up by the party to terrorize Zimbabweans into voting for Robert Mugabe in the one-man presidential runoff late last month and extending his 28-year rule.
The election is over, but the terror isn’t.
“I’m still at the base. I’m being raped by four or five men daily,” she whispers, bursting into tears. “Any time they want, night or day.
“To me, a comrade is a murderer, someone who’s cruel.”
She has been at the base for about 10 weeks, ever since she was abducted in the middle of the night because her mother is a supporter of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.

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