Smith's 'sugar coated poison'
Socialist Press1977 1977-11-30Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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Sturrock, FIREMEN the EETPU Conference The slaughter hundreds of Zimbabw and Mozambican free dom fighters, civilian and children b Rhodesian armed force came one day befor racist leader Smith wa hailed from Whitehall t the White House The attack on the cam 60 miles inside Mozambiqu left men, women and childre dead and dying in the hundreds.
Planes bombed the cam Helicopters then flew lo overhead, machine gunni anything that moved. Par chutists were dropped complete the massacre The claim by Rhodesi security forces that th killed more than 1,00 people in return for one their own soldiers shows ho unprepared the camp was.
Set 18 miles outsi Chimoio it ran schools i children, many of whom we killed, and provided nom for hundreds of refuge from Zimbabwe.
*Poison' This attack had alrea taken place when Smi invited 'moderate" bla Africans to reach a cons tutional agreement with hin The deal was described the Patriotic Front, befc news broke of the massac as "sugar coated poison"
Smith's move was a tac to outwit David Owen a Andrew Young, who are ti ing to impose their own ne colonial solution on country.
It has shown yet agr now, despite the imperiali readiness to talk about sett ments Smith has no intenti of yielding an inch to a form of black majority rule The difference betwe Smith's plan-for an 'intern settlement based on an agr ment with the non-guerri nationalist groups-and British-American plan is th the latter would involve interim British colonial dic torship and a political role f Nkomo and Mugabe, political leaders associat with theguerrillas, would themselves disarmed.
Smith himself is prepared to do a deal W the same leaders, but up now the evidence is that th have rejected it.
These other leader Bishop Muzorewa, the R Sithole and Chiefi Chiral Cont'd 2 Col.
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GRUNWICKS New initiative needed now
making a major move fo "peace.