When a State Turns on Its Citizens: 60 Years of Institutionalised Violence in Zimbabwe-Lloyd Sachikonye

In this harrowing and extremely comprehensive digest,presented as a academic paper, Lloyd Sachikonye presents his finding about political violence and state terror in Zimbabwe.
starting with the internecine violence between the ZANU and ZAPU movements in 1963 and 1964, following through the Rhodesian Bush War/Zimbabwe War of Liberation and the tortures perpetrated both by Rhodesian forces and by the ZANU and ZAPU leadeship on it's dissidents.
In 1975 Mugabe visited a torture camp and seeing a badly beaten and tortured ZANU dissident pleeing for mercy told him he deserved it. The man has been torturing and killing people since the 1960s. The book continues through the ethnic genocide of the Ndebele between 1982 and 1987 known as the Gukharundi in which over ten thousand Ndebele innocents were butchered by the North Korean trained Fifth Brigades.

But it mainly focuses on the terror, torture and fraud perpetrated by Mugabe and his ZANU PF to hang on to power since facing a the popularity of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change led by Morgan Tsvangirai. In 2007 Mugabe boasted that he had ordered the police to brutally beat Tsvangirai in police detention. Mugabe has continuously posted of having a 'degree in violence' and expressed scorn for any democratic change of power stating 'Should our struggle be cancelled by the stroke of a pen?' The book finally analyses used terror and fraud to steel the 2008 election which would certainly have resulted in a democratic regime change had it been free and fair. and the massive terror aimed at Zimbabwe's population in the years following. He has been supported in this by the regimes of South Africa, Iran, China, North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba