37 freedom fighters exhumed from mine shaft

Remains of 37 freedom fighters, who were killed and dumped into a disused mine shaft by the Rhodesian Security Forces during the war of liberation, have been exhumed in Mutasa district.
Workers at Hebert Mine in Grange stumbled upon human remains in a mining shaft closed during the liberation struggle and alerted authorities.
So far, remains of 37 freedom fighters have been exhumed from the mine shaft about 45 meters deep. 
The whole shaft is said to be 100 meters deep.
Hebert Mine Manager, Mr Tomas Maara Mutetwa said during the exhumation, they also found an assortment of ammunition and remains of animals in the same shaft.

Headman Addmore Saungweme said the country will not be at peace until fallen freedom fighters are accorded decent burials.

Mr James Denis Divasio, who was a farm worker during the liberation struggle, narrated how Ian Smith's brutal soldiers attempted to conceal the evidence of gruesome murders of innocent people.

A representative of the Fallen Heroes Trust of Zimbabwe, Peter Ngwarati said the government should put budgetary allocations specifically for the reburial of the remains of freedom fighters, sentiments also echoed by the Provincial Chairperson of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Collaborators, Cde Angeline Muponda.

34 years after independence, some freedom fighters who were brutally killed by the oppressive Rhodesian Forces during the height of the liberation struggle are still lying in mass graves, shallow graves and in disused mines.