ZANU refutes murder smear
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The Zimbabwe the organisation led by Robert Mugabe, and the main organisation continuing the guerrilla war against lan Smith and his black stooges, has issued a statement in relation to the massacre of the twelve British missionaries at Vumba, near Rhodesia's Mozambique border.
They make it clear that they had nothing to do with the massacre and accuse the notorious Selous Scouts section of Smith's Rhodesian army.
They say this was done to divert attention from the raid into Mozambique by the Rhodesian army last week in which 17 black refugees and 2 Belgians working for the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation were killed.
The statement went on to say that on an average 20 civilians were being killed every day by the Khodesian army and in one incident in Chanamora over 100 were killed.
ZANU say they have maintained excellent working relations with the missionaries.
Considering that every capitalist paper has not just accused ZANU but presented the case as though it was admitted, it is no wonder that the ZANU statement has gone unreported.
The murders, and the way that they have been reported in the capitalist press are quite clearly part of an attempt to force the so-called: "internal settlement" on the Rhodesian blacks and to isolate the gueroila movement