I have just watched Panorama. I feel the need to write about it. It made me feel sick. Robert Mugabe is an evil man...

In Zimbabwe, there are youth camps; children as young as 11 are there. Mugabe says that they are helping young people to learn skills that they need for work. THEY ARE NOT. The camps train young people as Mugabe's militia. They teach them how to act like him, and how to think like him. They take away the ability of these young people to think for themselves, and function alone.

Boys and girls are raped. It doesn't matter how young they are. Obviously, they do not use any form of contraception...When a girl is raped every night, sooner or later, she will get pregnant. In Zimbabwe, HIV is an issue. Panorama showed a young woman who was so scarred by her experiences in a camp that she cannot talk about them...She has tried to commit suicide...She has a baby because she was raped...She has HIV because she was raped. She KNOWS that she is going to die, leaving her child alone. Her child won't be looked after by social services or anything like that.

As if what I've said isn't bad enough, every day, these young people have to train like soldiers...If they complain, they are beaten...If a girl has been raped so violently that she is bleeding, she still has to do the training...200 pressups, long runs carrying heavy equipment...They are taught how to use guns...They are taught how to kill...They are taught how to hang people with shoe laces...

These children are made to beat and torture people, sometimes their relatives; these young people can never go home...The government knows that all of this is going on...But the government does nothing about it...

Mugabe instructs that all of his opponents must be eliminated...It is these young people who are made to eliminate them. These children are plied with alcohol and drugs; they do not know what they are doing...They are brainwashed...Mugabe is seriously damaging these people...Mugabe is making a generation that will be dangerous to the future...