GUERRILLA VETERANS IN POST-WAR ZIMBABWE by Norma J. Kriger ( 9780521818230 )

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GUERRILLA VETERANS IN POST-WAR ZIMBABWE
SYMBOLIC AND VIOLENT POLITICS, 1980-1987

By:

Norma J. Kriger

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0521818230

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

29 May, 2003

Series:

African Studies No. 105

Pages:

316

Description:

This book examines the peace settlement and veterans' programmes after Zimbabwe's guerrilla war of independence.

Synopsis:

Zimbabwe's guerrilla veterans have burst into the international media as the storm troopers in Mugabe's new war of economic liberation. In this book, Norma Kriger gives the unfolding contemporary drama a historical background, and shows continuities between the present and past. Between 1980 and 1987, guerrilla veterans and the ruling party colluded with and manipulated each other to build power and privilege in the army, police, bureaucracy and among workers. Both relied chiefly on violence and appeals to their participation in the anti-colonial liberation war as they sought to vanquish their then political opponents. Today, violence and a liberation war discourse continue to be salient as Mugabe's party and its guerrilla veterans struggle to maintain power through land invasions and purges of a new political opposition. This study gives a critical review of guerrilla programs and the war-to-peace transitions literatures, thus changing the way we view post-conflict societies.

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