Discarding the Filth: Operation Murambatsvina (Interim Report)
![Report Cover Photo: Still taken from the Solidarity Peace Trust video, “Discarding the Filth” Report Cover Photo: Still taken from the Solidarity Peace Trust video, “Discarding the Filth”](http://www.solidaritypeacetrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/opmurambatsvina-300x219.jpg)
On 19 May 2005, the Government of Zimbabwe began an operation labelled “Operation Murambatsvina” (OM). While Government has translated this to mean “Operation Clean-up”, or “Operation Restore Order”, the more literal translation of “Murambatsvina” is “Drive out the Filth”. This is not the first time this Government has used “cleaning” terminology to describe a process […]