Gukurahundi
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title:
Gukurahundi
text:
The Gukurahundi was a series of mass killings in Zimbabwe which were committed from 1983 until the Unity Accord in 1987. The name derives from a Shona-language term which loosely translates to "the early rain which washes away the chaff before the spring rains". During the Rhodesian Bush War, two rival nationalist parties, Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), had emerged to challenge Rhodesia's government. ZANU initiall
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description:
Civil conflict in Zimbabwe (1982-87)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gukurahundi
date created:
2002-12-10T14:32:42Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T21:59:43Z
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