Zimbabwe: Satellite images provide shocking evidence of the obliteration of a community
Last month Amnesty International released the first-ever satellite images of the wholesale destruction of a large community in Zimbabwe. The pictures show how a community of 30,000 at Porta Farm, outside Harare, was wiped from the map last year, during President Robert Mugabe’s Operation Murambatsvina, or “Restore Order”. Porta was a pretty well established place because it had been there for so long: there were brick buildings, a school and decent facilities. Porta Farm has been “a holding camp†since 1991, when authorities dumped poor squatters there from a township in a similar operation. Most of the residents had built sturdy brick houses and had secured court orders barring the Government from evicting them. Police ignored the courts and essentially leveled the entire village. Human rights agencies said that up to five people had died as riot police and bulldozers razed the homes of about 12,000 people. The remaining thousands have since been scattered, their fate unknown but almost certainly bleak.
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