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Police disrupt NCA demo
Zimbabwe Peace Project
November 11, 2008

At 1300 hours, about 50 National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) members demonstrated at the corner of Leopold Takawira Street and Nelson Mandela Streets demanding a new constitution. Within a few minutes about 12 riot police officers arrived in a Mazda B1800 truck. The police who were armed with baton sticks and a tear gas shotgun started driving the demonstrators away. The demonstrators retreated for some metres and then they started throwing stones at the police. The police officers had to run away.

Reinforcement riot police had to be called. They arrived within a few minutes and they were more than twenty in number. They arrived in a lorry and another Mazda B1800 truck. Upon their arrival the police started having running battles with the demonstrators. ZPP witnessed the arrest of 3 people. It seemed the police were having a problem with identifying the demonstrators because most of the demonstrators joined in the queues where people were waiting to get money from the banks nearby.

Bulawayo

ZPP received a report from the province that 2 people were also arrested for demonstrating demanding a new constitution.

Mutare

There was another demonstration in Mutare where 3 people were arrested by the police.

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