This is Zimbabwe, by Sokwanele, is a blog that should be on everybody’s reading list. With traditional media largely barred from reporting in Zimbabwe, it provides an invaluable stream of information about the actions of Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF regime and the suffering of those living under it. Now, they’ve released a video pulling together various reports about the recent arrest and torture of opposition figures. I’ll let their own words explain it:

With the help of a friend we’ve managed to compile a mixed media ‘video’ which has been posted to YouTube. We published it yesterday on our blog. It consists of extracts of interviews immediately after the arrests and torture of many of Zimbabwe’s opposition and civic leaders. Some have been taken from SW Radio Africa (Zimbabwe’s only independent radio station) forced to broadcast to Zimbabwe from a position of exile in London.

Much of the media focus has been on Morgan Tsvangirai, who was subjected to an unspeakable attack, and is still recovering in hospital from injuries which include a cracked skull. But are you also aware that one of the people tortured this weekend was Sekai Holland, a 63 year old grandmother who has long fought for the rights of Zimbabweans? (We are glad to say that she remains courageous and in good spirits, and is an inspiration to us all). Have you seen the level of bruising and soft tissue damage that Mugabe’s thugs inflicted on Grace Kwinje? Grace’s ear was almost completely severed off as a result of torture.

We especially ask AFRICAN bloggers to help us get the truth right out there into the African blogosphere. We need to put pressure on regional leaders to take action against this kind of unacceptable level of barbarity against Zimbabwean civilians and pro-democracy leaders by the Mugabe regime.

So here it is. Watch it, then spread it.