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Democrats: Beaten to Death
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Democrats, Douglas Mwonzora, a leader of the opposition party in Zimbabwe and on that country's new constitutional committee, visits the family of a boy killed in a politically charged melee, to offer condolences. When Mwonzora asks them what happened, he learns more about why they are afraid to speak up.
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