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After massacres in Mat. North province in 1983, North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade troops moved into Mat. South in 1984 with a scorched earth policy.
Edzai Chanyuka (Chimonyo) told BMATT commander Brig. Edward Jones his soldiers were "tired like zombies" in the killing fields.

This detail is contained on page 510 of this seminal book; the best there is on Gukurahundi.
Basically Chimonyo was talking about how his troops were then exhausted and couldn't function.
For they had been killing people ruthlessly since 1983 and by 1984 they were zombie tired.

Daily the Fifth Brigade troops had to massacre people, and in the end they were so tired of killing that they complained to commanders that they couldn't kill anymore efficiently as they were at the beginning.
Chimonyo was always in charge when Perrance Shiri was away.

BMATT (British Military Advisory Training Team) helped to train and integrate Zimbabwe's national army after Independence in 1980, which included three armies, Rhodesian, Zipra and Zanla forces.

British diplomats in Zimbabwe and BMATT on the ground were intimately aware of the genocide that resulted in the death of up 20 000 people.
In fact, British diplomats were at times complicit in the genocide as aptly shown by Dr Hazel Cameron, a British scholar and researcher.

"Analysis establishes that the British High Commission, Harare, had detailed knowledge of events unfolding in Matabeleland from an early stage of Gukurahundi," Cameron says.

"Yet senior members of BMATT and the British diplomatic team in Harare, in contrast to their US counterparts, were consistent in their efforts to minimise the magnitude of Fifth Brigade atrocities.

"That the British government chose to adopt a policy of wilful blindness towards the atrocities undoubtedly constituted naked realpolitik."

The murderous brigade flag...