2016
DOI: 10.1080/14702436.2016.1195235
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Soldiering the terrain of war: Zimbabwean soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1998–2002)

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“…However, it was against this background that the MDC was perceived as a mouthpiece of the Western agenda for regime change by the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU PF) government. By deploying soldiers during and in the aftermath of elections, the military unequivocally offered its support to former president Robert Mugabe (Maringira 2016(Maringira , 2019.…”
Section: Contextualizing Military Violencementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…However, it was against this background that the MDC was perceived as a mouthpiece of the Western agenda for regime change by the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU PF) government. By deploying soldiers during and in the aftermath of elections, the military unequivocally offered its support to former president Robert Mugabe (Maringira 2016(Maringira , 2019.…”
Section: Contextualizing Military Violencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The issue of ideology is central here, in particular how it mobilized soldiers to be violent. While barracks are spaces in which the military is housed, in the Zimbabwean context the barracks became sources in which violence toward perceived enemies of the state was "manufactured" and rehearsed (Maringira 2017a). The idea of elimination in this political Zimbabwean context is about doing violence toward an opposition political party and its members.…”
Section: Contextualizing Military Violencementioning
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“…Zimbabwe deployed more than five different battalions in different regions of the DRC. Some battalions served in the eastern DRC, while others were deployed on the northern front (Maringira 2016c(Maringira , 2015; see also Rupiya 2002). Each of the battalions worked closely with the soldiers of the Congolese Armed Forces (FAC), i.e.…”
Section: Zimbabwe Soldiers In the Drc Warmentioning
confidence: 99%