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...Mnangagwa struck a conciliatory tone in the months leading up to the election. Declaring that Zimbabwe was “open for business,” he amended a law requiring local ownership of diamond and platinum mines. He signaled his intent to end farm seizures and vowed to sell off failing state enterprises. He even wrote a New York Times op-ed calling for democracy and equal rights for all citizens. But Mnangagwa is tied to numerous human rights abuses, including overseeing a series of government-ordered massacres between 1982 and 1986 known as the “Gukurahundi.” An estimated 20,000 civilians from Zimbabwe’s Ndebele ethnic group were killed....

HARARE, Zimbabwe — A new documentary on massacres by Zimbabwe's military … The screening in the capital, Harare, would have been almost impossible under former leader Robert Mugabe, who led the country for 37 years and resigned following military intervention in November. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a longtime Mugabe loyalist and enforcer who succeeded him, has tolerated documentaries and plays critical of the government amid promises of a "flowering of democracy." But none has taken such direct aim at Mnangagwa as the new documentary on the army operation he supported as state security minister between 1983 and 1987. "Gukurahundi genocide: 36...

Gukurahundi victims to protest N. Korea soccer team By: Geoff Hill Published: Thursday April 29, 2010 ZIMBABWE-Lucy Dube recalls the day in the mid-1980s when her Zimbabwean village encountered Gukuranhundi — “the wind that blows away the chaff.” “I was only 10 years old at the time, but I watched my parents, my grandmother and two of my brothers being locked into a hut by those soldiers,” she said. “They lit the grass roof, and I could hear my family screaming, but there was nothing I could do.” Mrs. Dube said she had been sleeping at a friend’s hut less...