Last maingehama was on his way to a memorial service when he was kidnapped. A little after 2 p.m. on March 20, in the middle of an up- scale Harare neighborhood, government thugs dragged Last out of his car, tied a blindfold around his eyes and drove him into the Zimbabwean savanna. For the next five hours they beat the 33-year-old businessman and opposition activist relentlessly with hard wooden "batdesticks." They pounded the soles of his feet, he says, in an account verified by two independent human-rights researchers.
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