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Another eye-witness account

by Jack on Tue 07 Jun 2005 07:21 AM PDT | Permanent Link | Cosmos

A very strong eye-witness account of the violence in Harare.

Jack

3:15 pm Friday 3 June as I write this a K6 jet of the Zimbabwe airforce has been circling the Western townships of Kambuzuma & Kwadazana for the past 30 minutes. It has made over 10 circled flights. At 3:20 pm it seems to have returned to its airbase.

This morning at 7:45am I witnessed the mass movement of armed riot police moving west wards along the main Bulawayo road towards the western townships.

There must have been 500+ or so police and plain clothes police, moving in marked Police B1800 pickups, Police Santana Landrovers, personnel carrier armoured Trucks, even ZRP support group pickups, City of Harare pickups, and even City of Harare Tripper trucks (empty).

They were accompanied by Police Mercedes and Police Peugeot 306s' with sirens blaring, moving at the speed at which the Presidents' motorcade normally does.

All in all possibly 40 vehicles, which forced the outgoing traffic on this two double lane highway to pull over to the one side of the road.

Apparently this mass of Police movement went through the centre of town a few minutes earlier, so they were probably assembled at Morris Depot in Highlands and departed at 7:30am sharp for the western townships.

I heard through the word today that Kambazuma was the target for todays' evictions, I wonder if this is what transpired?

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