Mugabe makes speech at Nkala funeral attacking Blair

(18 Nov 2001)
Harare - November 18, 2001
1. Wide of crowd gathered at Heroes Park for funeral of Caim Nkala, Chairman of the War Veterans, in Zimbabwe's western Mapabeleland Province
2. Wide of crowd seated
3. Mid of men in crowd
4. Coffin being carried
5. Wide of sign reading 'Caim Nkala a true Martyr'
6. Men marching
7. President Mugabe of Zimbabwe arrives
8. Soldiers marching
9. Wide of statue
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe:
"Comrade Nkala's brutal murder was a bloody outcome of a much wider carefully planned terrorist plot by internal and external enemy forces. With plenty of funding from some commercial farmers and organisations within the region, organisations that are international like the Westminster foundation, which as we have established beyond doubt gets its dirty money for dirty tricks from the British labour party, the Conservative party and the Liberal party and that is of course also from the government of Tony Blair."
11. Cutaway crowd
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe:
"Nowhere else, not in Asia not in Africa, but in Europe. It is there that conspiracies are being worked out and sponsored by the British government. Let them tell us today who the terrorists in this country are. Is it the government of Zanu PF? Or the MDC that they are sponsoring?"
13. Coffin
12. Wide of crowd chanting
13. Soldiers in line
Bulawayo - November 17, 2001
14. Wide of college owned by Zanu PF that was fire bombed by MDC supporters on November 16
15. Workers cleaning up debris
16. Various inside of college
17. MDC regional office set fire to by a mob of militants and 'so called' war veterans
18. Various destroyed office
19. Fire burning inside of MDC offices
STORYLINE:
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe vowed on Sunday to crack down on the opposition party, describing them as "terrorists" sponsored by the British government.
Mugabe accused the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) of using violence to block his plans to redistribute 5,000 white-owned farms to landless blacks without paying compensation to the farmers.
In an emotional speech during the state funeral of murdered ruling party militant Cain Nkala, Mugabe issued a warning to Britain, to keep out of Zimbabwe's affairs.
Mugabe blames Nkala's November 5 abduction and murder on opposition activists.
He was was declared a national hero posthumously by the government.
At least 14 MDC members have been arrested in connection to the murder but have not been allowed to see their lawyers.
MDC secretary general Welshman Ncube said they have been tortured into making bogus confessions.
There has been widespread violence since Nkala's murder in the western city of Bulawayo.
On Friday, ruling party militants firebombed offices of the opposition MDC in Bulawayo, and randomly beat whites on the city's streets.
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Why would anybody with sense want to live in this place?

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Can you give me the name of the song between 0:21 to 0:26

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That's Mphefumlo wami Song done by Lundi Tyamara

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