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“Meltdown”Murambatsvina one year on Solidarity Peace Trust 30 August 2006

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Meltdown: Murambatsvina One Year On.

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Date recorded: Aug 30, 2006

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Displacements
Murambatsvina
Trauma

Summary: Between 1991 and 2003, urban poverty trebled in Zimbabwe. It was against this background of escalating economic collapse and social disintegration that “Operation Murambatsvina” (OM), or “Discarding the Filth”, took place in mid 2005. In the space of a few weeks, 700,000 people lost their homes and/or livelihoods in a process that the UN has referred to as “indiscriminate and unjustified”. More than two million others suffered related losses as a result of the demolitions.

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meltdown solidarity peace trust.pdf
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