The people of Siwale village in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, were still celebrating independence from Britain when Robert Mugabe's government, unhappy that they had voted for a rival political party, sent soldiers to crack down on them. The government claimed that it was dealing with dissidents. More than 20 000 unarmed civilians, including women and children, were killed. Thousands more were displaced. The operation is widely known as gukurahundi. The...