Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Zimbabwe Police Torch Homes

Scores of families in Mashonaland West, are now homeless after police torched their homes and evicted them from a farm on. These families were resettled at the farm in Mapinga, near Banket, just before the July elections, with these families coming from different parts of Zimbabwe.
Armed officers descended on the farm and ordered them to take out their property before they set over a thousand homes on fire.
The villagers also claimed that the police shot at one house after the owner had resisted taking his property out. It is also reported that the fire spread into the Great Dyke mountain range, as affected “families watched helplessly.”
These convictions are yet another violation of human rights and Mugabe and his government need to pay for these violations.

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