and authority to deploy, he deployed sixty two (62) members of the NRF. The NRF consisted of members of the Defence Forces and of the ZRP Support Unit. The National Reaction Force was deployed to the CBD in three (3) platoons in the following areas: a. Sector A covered the area between Enterprise road and Sam Nunjoma Street. b. Sector B covered the area bounded by Sam Nujoma Street and Chinhoyi Street. c. Sector C covered the area between Chinhoyi Street and Rekai Tangwena Street. It was his evidence that the deployed members were armed with AK 47 rifles but had no instructions to fire at the civilians. Their orders were to quell the violence and drive the demonstrators out of the CBD. According to his evidence, Sector C encountered the biggest challenges as rioters in that area had increased to between four and five thousand and had to call for assistance and reinforcement from Sector B. He further stated that even with the reinforcement, the platoon met stiff resistance from the rioters: “Whilst they [the platoon] were in between Netone building and ZEC offices just close to the intersection that’s when they met stiff resistance from the rioters who were said to lead even throwing stones and other objects to the troops who had debussed. Some were even chanting MDC slogans and also chanting noises to the effect ‘pfuti dzavo masoja hadzina mabara endai munodzitora. Batai musoja’ [translated this means that ‘the firearms of the soldiers were not loaded with any live ammunition. Go and take them. Grab the soldier’]”. According to him the platoon employed crowd dispersal drills by debussing and firing warning shots in the air which led rioters to flee. It was in that general area in Jason Moyo Avenue that the kneeling soldier who appears in video footage was 33 33