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Mugabe want rapists to be castrated
19 Sep 2013 at 03:57hrs | Views
PRESIDENT Mugabe has underscored the need to impose stiffer penalties like castration for rapists as part of measures to curb the vice.
He said Government would soon deliberate the issue and explore ways of dealing with the crime which he described as rampant.
The President was addressing guests on Tuesday during a dinner hosted by the Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing to celebrate the official opening of the First Session of the Eighth Parliament.
"Vanababa tochenjera. We are going to make it very, very tough for you. Vaye movayambira, madzishe, vanobata twana tudiki, kana zvichinzi ndizvo zvinopedza hurwere, kana zvichinzi zvinopa mhanza here, kana upfumi, movaudza vazvikande pasi. No molestation of youngsters, no molestation of women.
"We are going to increase masentences. In the past there was death for rape, zvino vemahuman rights vanoramba hanzi 'death haa no, it's inhuman, it dehumanises a person,' iye ari munhu atoita dehumanise vamwe.
"Kana wauraya munhu zvonzi a-ah, no, punishment of that nature is dehumanising, munhu akauraya mumwe? Ndipo pandinorambawo ipapa. Kungoti chete, if it comes in another way yekuti uyu akaparadza ropa toparadza rimwe here futi, so we have two people dying. An eye for an eye. Not in that way, ndaingoda for marapists kuti tisevenzise Burdizzo and the person remains alive. But that which makes him rape, must go. Kuna varume varikuramba ipapa," President Mugabe said to rousing applause from the floor.
He said Government would soon deliberate the issue and explore ways of dealing with the crime which he described as rampant.
The President was addressing guests on Tuesday during a dinner hosted by the Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing to celebrate the official opening of the First Session of the Eighth Parliament.
"We are going to increase masentences. In the past there was death for rape, zvino vemahuman rights vanoramba hanzi 'death haa no, it's inhuman, it dehumanises a person,' iye ari munhu atoita dehumanise vamwe.
"Kana wauraya munhu zvonzi a-ah, no, punishment of that nature is dehumanising, munhu akauraya mumwe? Ndipo pandinorambawo ipapa. Kungoti chete, if it comes in another way yekuti uyu akaparadza ropa toparadza rimwe here futi, so we have two people dying. An eye for an eye. Not in that way, ndaingoda for marapists kuti tisevenzise Burdizzo and the person remains alive. But that which makes him rape, must go. Kuna varume varikuramba ipapa," President Mugabe said to rousing applause from the floor.
Source - herald
