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HARARE, 19 December 2012 (IRIN): Security forces are being deployed across Zimbabwe ostensibly (angiveligt) to record accounts of the country’s liberation struggle against white-minority rule untill 1980.
But both political parties and independent analysts view the tactic as a prelude to political violence ahead of next year’s scheduled elections.
In the aftermath of the violent 2008 polls, a government of national unity was formed between President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF and two wings of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
It was decreed that both presidential and parliamentary elections would be held simultaneously between March and October 2013. But no date has yet been set for the elections, and no referendum on the adoption of a new constitution – a prerequisite (forudsætning) for the polls – has been held.
Mugabe has been president since the country’s 1980 independence from Britain, and, in accordance with the 2009 unity government agreement, ZANU-PF has retained control of all security portfolios.
Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa has said that the Military History Research Project is an urgent issue.
“People must know where this country came from and how we got our freedom. The process of capturing this vital historical information and events is a race against time, as people who have this information in their memories are dying. With the passage of time, the memories naturally fade away or get distorted with age,” he stated.
The ZANU-PF project involves the deployment of soldiers as well as “historians and researchers” to interview people – such as traditional leaders, chiefs, headmen and veterans of the liberation war – about pre- and post-independence military history.
The deployment of security forces comes after senior military commanders declared they would not serve under any government that was not led by ZANU-PF.
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