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By Alois Vinga
ANTI-RIOT police bashed community members in Domboshava Village, Matobo as punishment for ganging up to evict miners, civil society group, Heal Zimbabwe Trust has reported.
The details were revealed by the Human Rights Monitors (HRMs) working with HZT, during a training workshop earlier this week.
“The villagers are living in constant fear because these miners are so violent and bribe the police to avoid arrests.
“They have threatened that they will unleash a second wave of Gukurahundi if villagers continue to resist their mining activities,” said HZT.
Gukurahundi refers to a military operation back in the early 1980s which saw the slaughter of an estimated 20 000 civilians in Matabeleland and Midlands regions.
By Staff Reporter
Mutare: A Manicaland-based environmental watchdog has called on government to facilitate an outgrowers scheme for the Shangani community which faces eviction from its ancestral land in order to pave way for a multi-million-dollar Lucerne grass farming project.
Lucerne grass is used for hay and cow forage.
Over 12 000 families from Chilonga and Mutomani areas in Chiredzi were recently dealt a huge blow after government gazetted Statutory instrument 50 which legalises their eviction from ancestral land.
The eviction will pave way for Dendairy’s multi-million-dollar project targeting 10 000 hectares of arable land for Lucerne production meant for supplying local and foreign markets.