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Matabeleland Massacres
** This programme contains graphic descriptions of violence which are very disturbing ** In the early 1980s, thousands of civilians were killed in Zimbabwe by the security forces.
*** This programme contains graphic descriptions of violence which are very disturbing ***
In the early 1980s, thousands of Zimbabweans were tortured and killed by security forces loyal to the government of Robert Mugabe during a campaign against "dissidents". We hear a survivor's story.
Photo: Troops interrogate suspect in Matabeleland 1983.
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