but be realistic with me, mr sikhala. i am mindful that your nickname, for many zimbabweans, is wiwa, because you model yourself on the nigerian environmental and human rights activist ken saro—wiwa. but we know what happened to mr saro—wiwa. he was eventually executed by the military dictatorship in nigeria back in 1995. as you've pointed out the repressive human rights record — the fact that opposition activists disappear, some of them have been killed — if you go back to zimbabwe — because you're not there right now — isn't the reality that if you continue with the language you're using with me, you may well disappear yourself? the struggle for the freedom of the masses of our people is not one we can relent upon. we are... like what i have been saying several times, i am prepared to die for the causes that i believe in. i know the kind of the regime that i'm dealing with and also the way how they persecuted me when i was in prison, not only once. don't forget that i have been arrested 68 times on different