thousands of acres of grey concrete rubble where homes and small businesses stood, and created a vast tide of refugees seeking shelter and food.
In Hatcliffe, a squatter camp in north Harare, the police destroyed not only a Catholic refuge for Aids orphans, a secondary school and a World Bank-funded public lavatory, but on Wednesday, under the grim eye of two local imams, they completed the destruction a Sunni mosque.
Mussa Mukwinda, 81, the secretary of the Hatcliffe Islamic Organisation, is sleeping in the nearby bush. “The police said, ‘we do what we want to do’. Sick people, children have no blankets, no food.”
The Mugabe regime has provided no temporary accommodation or assistance to the victims of the mass demolitions. Everyone has been told to go to the rural areas that are now enduring their third year of famine. {…]
Augustine Chihuri, the Police Commissioner, said yesterday that Operation Murambatsvina was meant to “clean the country of the crawling mass of maggots bent on destroying the economy”. He thanked the people who had their homes destroyed “for not going wild during the exercise”.
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