pecan his knees drawn up against: his Doug Collins @ get this straight ® IN 1986, this country gave the great democracy of Zambia $37 million in new foreign aid ‘‘initiatives’’. And in February of this year, Zambia showed how grateful it was by beating a Canadian citizen to a pulp and making a ner- vous wreck of him. So much so that he now has a stammer. We are back on the Brian Pren- ‘tice story, which featured last week on the front page of this newspaper and was the subject of Wednesday’s column, Mr. Pren- tice being a North Vancouver businessman whose offices are on Lonsdale Avenue. As mentioned previously, Zam- bia is a police state headed by Kenneth Kaunda, one of the pets of the West. Pet enough, at any rate, for Brian Mulroney to slob- ber all over him during that recent safari to Africa. Mr. Prentice eritered Zambia Feb. 19, after having been in South Africa and Zimbabwe. He saw the trade minister right away, and was on his way back to his hotel when he was stopped by a police car. His Canadian passport having expired, he was travelling on a British one, and when the police saw that it had a South African stamp on it they beat him. unconscious right there on the street and dragged him off to jail. No ifs, ands or buts, or ‘‘let me see my lawyer’? nonsense, of course. Requests to see Canadian or British embassy officials were ‘ignored, too. : " The cell into which he was toss- ed measured about 13 feet square’, and held 31 other men, all blacks. He had to sit against a wall with’: chest, and there was no light. Soon he was taken out to- be beaten up again. For an hour. This went on intermittently for four days. i He lost count of time, which is why he thought at first that he had been detained for six days. But when he checked his papers he saw it was only four. The room in which they knock- ed him about was well-equipped with instruments of torture, he says, including manacles and chains for suspending ‘people from the ceiling by their arms. Celt-mates said that the ‘‘inter- rogators’’? would suspend a man that way for as long as 45 minutes. He was not given that treat- ment, but was kicked, punched, beaten with a rubber hose, and dragged down a flight of stone steps by his feet. To prevent his head from striking the steps, he used his elbows as cushions, and they swelled to the size of tennis balls. : At every ‘‘interrogation’’ they demanded that he confess to spying for South Africa. But he knew that once he signed a docu- ment to that effect he would be lost. So he stuck it out. ; At one point the chief of police offered to let him go for $1,000, which he didn’t have. Inex- plicably, the same man drove him back to his hotel when he was released, and Prentice has no idea why he was shown such sudden kindness. 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