'They Beat Me On My Legs with Iron Bars' ; Exiles' Fears Over Forced Repatriation the Story of Joy Bowman - the Jamaican Woman Living in Newcastle Who Is Facing Deportation Despite Two of Her Sons Serving in the British Army - Made National Headlines Last Month. But There Are Other Families Who Have Lived in the North for Years, Who Claim They Will Be Killed If They Return to the Country They Fled. Phil Doherty Hears Their Stories . . .

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TENDAI Musariri fears he will be murdered if he is sent back to Zimbabwe.

He is a member of the Movement for Democratic Change, MDC, the political party opposed to president Robert Mugabe.

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'They Beat Me On My Legs with Iron Bars' ; Exiles' Fears Over Forced Repatriation the Story of Joy Bowman - the Jamaican Woman Living in Newcastle Who Is Facing Deportation Despite Two of Her Sons Serving in the British Army - Made National Headlines Last Month. But There Are Other Families Who Have Lived in the North for Years, Who Claim They Will Be Killed If They Return to the Country They Fled. Phil Doherty Hears Their Stories . . .

Tendai says he still bears the scars on his legs of the beatings he endured at the hands of the ruthless Zimbabwean secret police before he fled in 2001.

And he claims...

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