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War veterans under investigation for torture

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    Zimbabwean police have begun investigating charges that war veterans tortured opposition supporters in the offices of their leader Chenjerai Hunzvi, news reports said on Wednesday.

    “We don’t ignore these alleged tortures,” Emmanuel Chimwanda, the senior police commissioner for Harare told AFP. He also confirmed that the police had starting probing allegations of torture which had appeared in the Zimbabwean press.

    “We received reports that there were people staying there (at Hunzvi’s offices) and that people were kidnapped or taken and questioned,” Chimwanda added.

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