Maggots, manacles and beatings


	Maggots, manacles and beatings

Socratoad

5-18-2007 8:17 PM

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zimbabwe, prison

Socratoad says:

I recommend reading all of this for a glimpse of hell.

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He became a link in a lucrative but illicit trade, smuggling imported vehicles from Durban in South Africa, up through Zimbabwe and Zambia, for sale in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 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