June 23, 2006

Enemies of the State

By MEGAN LINDOW

Students and professors in Zimbabwe struggle to continue their work as the Mugabe regime attacks higher education

Phillan Zamchiya was walking to the bus stop, just outside of the University of Zimbabwe's entrance gate, when, he says, five plainclothes state-security men pounced on him. It was October 14, 2004, the evening before the delivery of a long-awaited verdict in the treason trial of the country's beleaguered opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai.

Mr. Zamchiya, who was

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