Peasant Voices' (199Z)1 S
The African e-Journals Project has digitized full text of articles of eleven social science and humanities journals. This item is from the digital archive maintained by Michigan State University Library. Find more at: http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/ Available through a partnership with Scroll down to read the article. Zambezia (1996), XXIII (i). HEROES, HERETICS AND HISTORIANS OF THE ZIMBABWE REVOLUTION: A REVIEW ARTICLE OF NORMA KRIGER'S 'PEASANT VOICES' (199Z)1 S. ROBINS Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of the Western Cape ... Mrs M, 43, said she was arrested at her home ... She said the CIO was looking for her brother, and had arrested every member of her family, including four sisters and another brother, a number of her brother's employees, her niece, and two friends — eighteen people in all. She said all of them were taken to Stops Camp ... "At Stops the CIO took me into an empty room. The place was terrible. The floor was covered with water and blood. The CIO man said, 'Where is your brother?' I said, i don't know.' Then they tortured me. They made me sit down on the floor. My hands were handcuffed behind my back, my legs manacled in front. They took a post office bag, a canvas post office bag, filled with water, and dunked my head into it. Then they pulled the string tight around my neck, so tight that when you sit up, the water doesn't drop out. Not one drop of water leaked out. They then started choking me with their hands, their thumbs, their fingers.
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