By Lesley Ncube| The cruel soldiers caught on camera shooting at fleeing civilians on the 1st August were likely promoted and are now working at the country’s foreign embassies.
A source inside the military told this reporter, “it is the norm for the military to be sent to work in embassies as defence attache’s.”
They would however not speak directly concerning the whereabouts of the 1 August soldiers.
If their statement holds true, the practice of deployment would be similar to other nations. At one time in London, a Libyan embassy official shot and killed a British policewoman, PC Yvonne Fletcher.
The Guardian newspaper identified a man later arrested as Dr Saleh Ibrahim Mabrouk, a former minister in the late president Muammar Gaddafi’s government and a high-ranking member of the team tasked by the regime with suppressing opposition.
PC Fletcher, who was 25, was hit in the back by automatic gunfire from the direction of the Libyan embassy on the morning of 17 April 1984. Libyan exiles in the UK, some of whom were also injured, had been protesting against the Gaddafi regime. Fletcher died later that day at Westminster hospital. Her fiance, Michael Liddle, who was also a police officer, was at her side.
The murder led to a 10-day police siege of the embassy and the severing of diplomatic relations with the Libyan regime, as well as the deportation of 30 of the people who were inside the building.
The brutal military operations of the 1st August were pre-planned more than 8 months before and a ZBC full broadcast shows Emmerson Mnangagwa smiling as his most senior office worker on the 15th December 2017 announced that ZANU PF will deploy the military in order to change the election results.
Meanwhile the below twitter user has begun a search for the soldier in the below picture caught on camera in a kneeling position:
I was touched by the cruelty displayed in this video, and the gesture of inhuman and brutality demonstrated by this kneeling soldier despite the promotion he received. I am therefore appealing to my fellow Zimbabweans to help me locate this soldier. @ProfJNMoyo @PacheduZW @ZimEye pic.twitter.com/NVE3GEmu6o
— Steve ?? (@SteveZwitter) January 7, 2019