Is there no respect for human life in the Zimbabwean capitol?

Earlier this week, I reported about what was going on with the economic crisis, and that there had been an attempt on President Mugabe's life by opposition leaders. The perpetrators were summarily arrested.

ZWNews tells us the rest of their story:

"State security agents beat up and tortured four opposition activists arrested last week for allegedly possessing arms of war and tried to force them to confess plotting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe and overthrow his government, the activists' lawyers said at the weekend. "

Ah, yes. Good old torture. Works everytime.

"One of the defence lawyers, Chris Ndlovu, told Mutare magistrate Fabian Feshete that a team of secret service agents and soldiers took the four Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) activists to a military camp called Adams Barracks, about six kilometers east of the city. At the camp, the four were severely beaten up and tortured including on their private organs and at one time some of the MDC activists were forced to drink human urine."

Genital torture, forced to drink urine, apparently this is a common thing with prisoners.
This is horrible, and it's such a good thing that this got brought to court. Good thing they had defense lawyers arguing their cases in front of a magistrate!

"The magistrate however did not order an investigation into the allegations of torture and did not even appear to have taken official note of Ndlovu's complaints about the ill-treatment of his clients."

What?

I make the statement: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is the African tyrant to watch in 2006.