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By Bulawayo Correspondent
FORMER Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) veterans have appeared before the Portfolio Committee on Defence, Home Affairs and Security Services and raised serious concerns over crafting of the Veterans of the Liberation Struggle Act.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed the Act into law in September this year.
Following the enactment of the Act into law, the ZIPRA veterans petitioned Parliament over the new law which they argued fell far from their expectations.
ZIPRA was the militant arm of ZAPU during the war for Zimbabwe’s liberation.
Parliament then responded to the petition and invited the ex-ZIPRA fighters to appear before its Defence Portfolio Committee.
Terrorism and War-Related Airplane Crashes Fast Facts
Here’s a selected list of commercial airplane crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism.
June 14, 1940 – Soviet bombers shoot down the Kaleva, a Finnish commercial plane traveling from Estonia to Finland, killing all nine on board. One passenger was Henry W. Antheil Jr., an American diplomat who was carrying diplomatic pouches from US legations in Estonia and Latvia.
March 3, 1942 – Japanese aircraft shoot down a KNILM flight on its way to Broome, Australia. The plane crash-lands on the beach at Carnot Bay. Four people die.
June 1, 1943 – British actor Leslie Howard is among 17 killed when German fighters shoot down a British Overseas Airways Corporation flight over the Bay of Biscay.
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