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JOHANNESBURG: More than 200 international human rights and civic groups called on the African Union and United Nations on Thursday to stop Zimbabwe's Government from destroying the homes and livelihoods of poor city dwellers. The groups, including London-based Amnesty International and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, released smuggled footage showing hundreds of thousands of people on the move after police torched and bulldozed their shanty town homes. Bewildered families were sleeping in the open, surrounded by their paltry possessions in the winter cold, the footage showed. In a joint statement on Thursday, the groups said the campaign known as Operation Murambatsvina, or Drive Out Trash, was ``a grave violation of international human rights law and a disturbing affront to human dignity.'' President Robert Mugabe defends the drive as an urban renewal initiative. — AP
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