President Mugabe Wants Rapists Castrated In Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has suggested castration of child rapists to curb the scourge, which he described as a rampant problem.

The 89 year-old leader told lawmakers from his Zanu PF party after officially opening parliament on Tuesday that his new government must introduce stiffer penalties for rape.

“Fathers be aware. We are going to make it very, very tough for you”. "No molestation of youngsters, not molestation of women.”

“We are going to increase sentences” “In the past there was death for rape but these days those campaigning for human rights say its inhuman, it dehumanizes a person.

“But these are people who dehumanize others. If you kill someone they say punishment of that nature is dehumanizing, for a person who killed someone?

“This is where I disagree. An eye for an eye. Not in that way, I was thinking for rapists we should castrate them and the person remains alive.

“But that which makes him rape, must go. Are there any many here who are against that?” President Mugabe said.