Operation Round Up
Operation Round Up
(Blog entry)
Grandpa Robert Mugabe rounds up 10,000 street kids and sends them to the “farm“:
President Robert Mugabe began a new onslaught on Zimbabwe’s poor yesterday when his regime announced that more than 10,000 street children and vagrants had been “rounded up” in Harare.
Police described their latest assault on the capital’s poverty-stricken street dwellers, codenamed Operation Round Up, as a crime-fighting measure.
Last year they bulldozed thousands of “illegal structures” in the poorest townships, leaving 700,000 people without homes or livelihoods.
The new operation appears aimed at those cast on to the streets by the earlier demolitions. (h/t Magic Statistics)
The last roundup was called Operation Murambatsvina (Shona for “Drive Out the Trash” #) where a slum clearance was performed with bulldozers. No word yet from Jimmy Carter in Mugabes defence.
