ZIMBABWE: Opposition leader Joshua Nkomo speaks out against clampdown on Bulawayo
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1539067
ZIMBABWE: Opposition leader Joshua Nkomo speaks out against clampdown on Bulawayo
- Title: ZIMBABWE: Opposition leader Joshua Nkomo speaks out against clampdown on Bulawayo
- Date: 4th March 1985
- Summary: HARARE, ZIMBABWE (3 MARCH, 1985) (VISNEWS - GEOFF CHILTON) GV Street scenes SV & CU Joshua Nkomo speaking: journalists making notes (ENGLISH SOT) (3 shots) TRANSCRIPT (SEQUENCE TWO): NKOMO: "(Indistinct) No other city has been searched in this country. It is only Bulawayo. And of course it is in common with the tribal trust areas north and south of Matabeleland. And people have been subjected to this, to this inhuman and degrading treatment by their government. Why it is so, I have not been able to discover. I see this as a way of dehumanising the people in the province, thereby demoralising them before the elections come. This is an election stunt of demoralising the people in the west and the western areas because they have supported ZAPU and thereby makes them confused, possibly not vote or be forced to vote ZANU-PF...(indistinct) ... To me this is ... (indistinct)."
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- Location: HARARE, ZIMBABWE
- Country: Zimbabwe
- Topics: Domestic Politics
- Reuters ID: LVAC9PV6V3QN16WFEPHDODNFRKY7
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- Story Text: Zimbabwe's opposition leader Joshua Nkomo on March 3 criticised the government clampdown on western townships of Bulawayo as an "inhuman and degrading election stunt". Security forces lifted the cordon 36 hours after it began. Thousands of troops had sealed off the densely populated area in an operation the government said was aimed at preventing violence in connection with June's general elections. After the last security clampdown nearly two years ago, Nkomo went into exile for five months, saying he feared for his life.
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