IT IS estimated that there are over 1,1 million landmines planted along the borders of Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Zambia by the then settler regime of Ian Smith during the country’s liberation war of the 1970s. They were planted to deter freedom fighters from crossing into Mozambique or back into Zimbabwe as the war of liberation…
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The landmines were laid in the 1970s by the former white minority government to deter young freedom fighters from crossing into Mozambique for military training.