12 them off. A firearm was pointed at his head and a threat to shoot him was made. A few days later after his release he was examined in Salisbury and found to have patches of hair missing, severe bruising of the soles of his feet and marks of the assault on his buttocks. The Government is defending his claim but has not yet given details of its attitude. Antony has not been charged or detained.” Initially it appeared that falanga had not been widely used during the Liberation War. The victims reported severe beatings as very common, but few reported falanga. 29 However, in a follow-up study of survivors from the Liberation War, it was noted that 10% of the sample reported experiencing falanga, which was confirmed on medical examination. 30 Falanga was again reported during the disturbances in the 1980s in Matabeleland, and were detailed in another CCJP report, Torture in Zimbabwe31. Subsequently up to the Food Riots in 1998 but there were no reported cases of falanga. However during and after the Food Riots there were anecdotal reports of the use of falanga, but there was not one case in the 42 cases represented by the Human Rights Forum.32 In recent years one of the more notorious cases involving falanga involved Chief Detective Inspector Henry Dowa of the Law and Order Section of the Criminal Investigation Department [CID] of the Zimbabwe Republic Police [ZRP]. Dowa was accused of using falanga on an arrested person in 2002. Dowa had been posted to Kosovo as a member of a ZRP contingent operating under the auspices of the United Nations. An approach was made to the United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo [UNMIK] for Dowa to be arrested on the allegations of torture, but the UN declined to do so and instead suspended Dowa from his duties and sent him back to Zimbabwe, with a request to the Zimbabwe Government that it investigate these allegations. To the Human Rights Forum’s knowledge no such investigations have taken place. Dowa returned to 30 See Amani (1998), Survivors of Torture and Organised Violence from the 1970 War of Liberation, HARARE: AMANI. See again Amani (1998), Survivors of Torture and Organised Violence from the 1970 War of Liberation, HARARE: AMANI. 31 See also CCJP & LRF (1997), Breaking the Silence-Building True Peace: A Report on the Disturbances in Matabeleland 29 and Midlands 1980 to 1988, HARARE: CATHOLIC COMMISSION FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE IN ZIMBABWE & LEGAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION. 32 See Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (1998), Human Rights in Troubled Times: An Initial Report on Human Rights Abuses During and After Food Riots in January 1998. HARARE: ZIMBABWE HUMAN RIGHTS NGO FORUM; Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (1999), A Consolidated Report on the Food Riots 19—23 January 1998, HARARE: ZIMBABWE HUMAN RIGHTS NGO FORUM. Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum. Only bruises on the soles of their feet. The use of Falanga by the Zimbabwe Republic Police.