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67 Missing Zim Soldiers be declared dead

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Original Post Date: 2003-11-24  Posted By: Jan

From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 11/24/2003 7:00:10 AM
67 Missing Zim Soldiers be declared dead

[Note. The civil war in Zaire (DRC) is the biggest war yet in black Africa. Twelve nations pounded the heck out of each other and 2.5 million people died. But the mass media hardly reported a word. Jan]

The government is seeking the go-ahead to declare dead at least 67 soldiers who went missing in action in the then war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where they had gone to prop up the administration of the late President Laurent Kabila from 1998. Official sources said the Ministry of Defence will soon publish scores of names of soldiers who went missing in the vast central African country as government seeks to declare all those that it cannot account for in the DRC as dead. On Friday, The Herald published notices of 67 names of missing soldiers suspected to have perished in war in the DRC, where hundreds of Zimbabwean soldiers died in combat against rebels supported by Uganda and Rwanda. A worker in the newspaper’s classifieds section yesterday said The Herald’s Friday advertisements, which had the names of the missing soldiers, were billed under the Police General Headquarters’ account.

Police spokesperson Wayne Bvudzijena, professed ignorance on why the legal notice of missing soldiers was billed under the PGHQ account. Defence Minister Sydney Sekeramayi said he could not comment on the legal notice because he had not seen it. He also declined to divulge the total number of Zimbabwean soldiers who died in the vast central African country. The legal notices read: “Application has been received for an order presuming the death of (names of soldiers supplied and address). An inquiry will be held in terms of section 5 of the above Act (Notice of Application Missing Persons 1978).” Despite its denials, international media reports say Zimbabwe lost hundreds of soldiers in the five-year military campaign that saved the Kabila regime. Apart from the loss of many lives, the DRC war also gobbled billions of dollars. At one time, it was estimated that the war was costing the country about $30 million a day. War in the DRC officially ended last year after five years of intense fighting, which drew in six African countries including Zimbabwe.

Source:Zimbabwe Standard
published:Sun 23-Nov-2003
By Caiphas Chimhete
URL: http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID…br>