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Hazel Cameron, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Stirling

INSANE: Zimbabwe s president was security minister when genocidal rape was state policy in 1983 4 now he seeks another term - The Real Truth

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Tafadzwa Ufumeli/Getty Images

Trigger warning: this article contains accounts of sexual violence.

Zimbabwe will hold its elections on 23 August. The current president of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is running for re-election. This is despite his having oversight in the execution of the genocide of a minority group of Zimbabweans in the south-west region, as evidenced in my newly published study.

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