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MARYLAND   Hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the misery of statelessness in Zimbabwe have been forced to the margins of society, and struggle to access education, healthcare and housing, according to Amnesty International. In a report titled ‘We are like stray animals’, Amnesty International interviewed descendants of migrant workers who settled in Zimbabwe before independence, as well as survivors of the Gukurahundi massacres of the 1980s - two groups locked out of citizenship by a “cruel combination of discrimination and bureaucracy.” The report details what it calls Zimbabwe’s discriminatory and arbitrary nationality laws that have left generations of migrant workers and their families marginalized in the only country they have ever called home. At the same time, thousands of survivors of the Gukurahundi massacres, one of the bloodiest episodes of the late former president Robert Mugabe’s rule, are denied citizenship because they cannot provide death cert

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