ZIMBABWE People s Revolutionary Army (Zipra) ex-combatants yesterday held a memorial service in remembrance of their commander Lookout Masuku who died in 1986 s.
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‘Masuku death marked the demise of democracy’
BY SILAS NKALA/NQOBANI NDLOVU
CIVIC groups in Matabeleland have described the late Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (Zipra) Commander General Lookout Masuku as the epitome of democracy, hence his inexplicable death on April 5, 1986 shortly after his release from a Zanu PF government-engineered detention marked the end of the rule of law and respect for human rights.
Masuku died just after his release from prison, where he had been detained for four years together with 86 other ex-Zipra officials, although the courts had cleared them of charges of planning a
coup
d’état against then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe’s administration.