told to take them to Shamva battle camp, east of Harare.

"Their interrogation was now our job. We were told to extract information from them about where the MDC (the opposition party) is trainings its fighters in South Africa, who had employed them to join them, and how much they would be paid. That's what the government believe, you see. They think soldiers who desert are being paid to join opposition forces in South Africa.

"It was also made clear to us that the boys were condemned, and that when we had finished with them we must kill them.

"When we got to Shamva the army men handed them over to us - that is, the four secret agents, and the two military police. We took them out into the bush. At one point the two police were left behind, to dig a grave, while we took the

team - four secret agents including me, two army sergeant majors, and four military police. We drove the prisoners, who already showed signs of being ill-treated, to the army headquarters, and left them there, along with the sergeant majors.

"We were ordered to return and pick them up two days later, on April 8, a Sunday. It was again obvious that they had been tortured. Now we were