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Close encounter with Zimbabwe's secret police
By Justin Pearce
BBC News website, Zimbabwe
In the latest part of his series, Justin Pearce reflects on the hardships of life in Zimbabwe - for those delivering aid and for journalists trying to find out what is going on.
Even handing out food is a risky business in Zimbabwe. Delivering food aid is not a crime in Zimbabwe. Nevertheless, I saw a priest interrogated by the secret police for that very reason. Legal or illegal, delivering food aid in Zimbabwe is certainly a slow business, mostly because no one knows where exactly the needy people are. I had spent the best part of 24 hours rumbling around the dirt roads of rural Matabeleland in a truck laden with maize meal and blankets - intended for some of the people who have been dumped in the countryside after government knocked down the homes of 500,000 people. Whenever we saw someone on the road, the priest and the driver who were delivering the food asked if they knew of any displaced people in the area.


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