Dear Editor,

I applaud the fact that there have been media reports exposing that of children being shackled, caged and raped by military officials in Zimbabwe amidst the unrest last month.

Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, president of Zimbabwe, should be ashamed. There is no action because it’s not a politician’s kid or wife. This is unjustifiable.

The system always, as we all know, drowns and submerges the vulnerable with horrendous and unspeakable acts of violence, rape, abuse, torture, slave labour, human trafficking, child marriage and many inhuman ideals. Most of the time this atrocities are under-reported. Unfortunately, these cases do happen more often than reported in authoritarian regimes and autocratic nations. We seem to normalise it because hungry people will do anything to feed their families. But we forget how the regimes like Mnangagwa’s have acquired their wealth and stay rich. They impoverish citizens and oppress them by designing systems that cause hunger and desperation to enslave and abuse the vulnerable.

We all have a duty to free the enslaved and speak out against rape and abuse in every society.

We have to keep fighting against injustice and keep spotlighting these atrocities all over the world.

Isaac Chawasarira

Wolverhampton, UK

zekygr85@gmail.com