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| Africa: Subsaharan |
| Zimbabwe resumes demolitions despite promises |
| 2005-07-26 |
| EFL: Harare - Zimbabwe has resumed destroying homes and has flattened the country's biggest slum, witnesses said on Tuesday, a day after United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said he plans to visit the country to discuss the controversial demolition campaign. Zimbabwean anti-riot police beat up people and torched property as they razed the Porta Farm slum housing some 20 000 residents, witnesses said. "Police started chasing away and beating up people on (Monday) night, saying we were refusing to leave," said a former squatter at the Porta Farm slum, requesting anonymity. The destruction of Porta Farm marks a resumption of the government's controversial demolition campaign, which authorities said last week they had halted to give people time to obtain necessary permits for their homes and other buildings. The demolitions came hours after Annan said on Monday that he had accepted an invitation to visit Zimbabwe to discuss a damning UN report on Harare's demolition of urban slums that has left hundreds of thousands of people homeless. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #4 OK, guys, I've had it with this Southern Africa shite. Bob did not think of this on his own. See reports on 5th Brigade massacres, early '80's, Korean-trained. Combined with Chi-com thinking; aquiesence (sp)?, from Mbeki, (ANC); + a war debt Bob has to pay for still; Us, the west, lost some valuable assets in the short term for early "pc" crap. What do you think Rhodesians were fighting for? Very close analogy to Viet-nam and selling-out by everyone. The thing is, when we get it back, itsa gonna be severely fokked over, and worse than useless for a long time. Oh well, the war will come back to them, I think. Such a shame. |
| Posted by: rhodesiafever 2005-07-26 19:26 |
| #3 You poor morons are looking for sense here. I'd advise staying at home and hording breadfruit. |
| Posted by: half 2005-07-26 18:18 |
| #2 Mbeki must've given the wink-n-nod to go ahead |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-07-26 15:36 |
| #1 DAMN that Bushitler! |
| Posted by: Hyper 2005-07-26 14:44 |