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Article: Digging up the past.(Zimbabwe)(Brief Article)
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- African Business
- Article date:
- December 1, 2000
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The Zimbabwe government has said it will review the 1980s national reconciliation policy following remarks by former Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith that he did not regret the murder of thousands of people during the country's 1970s war of liberation.
More than 30,000 black Zimbabweans were killed during the war, which spanned 14 years, with the Rhodesian forces making forays into neighbouring countries of Zambia and Mozambique on bombing raids.
"The more we killed, the happier we were. We were fighting terrorists," Smith said at a debate at Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Smith, in an interview with the Observer newspaper, brushed off threats by ...