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...Korea to have a military unit trained by war-hardened Asian communists. The Korean-trained brigade was responsible for a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign against a racial minority, the Ndebele, who had sought autonomy from Mugabe’s increasingly authoritarian rule. The campaign was baptized “Gukurahundi,” which in the language of Mugabe’s racial majority, the Shona, means “cleansing rain.” Mugabe’s aggressive policies were not merely internal. Along with other African success stories like Angola and Libya, Zimbabwe sent troops...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Colonialism Redux | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

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