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The pamphlet says the Smith government in Rhodesia took a new twist in April with the publication of a series of propaganda leaflets designed to discredit the guerillas. The pamphlet includes copies of some of the leaflets. Contents: Causing alarm or despondency: a crime • Propaganda attempts to isolate guerillas • Protected villages on the increase • Rhodesian army pursues policy of systematic torture • 1. Security Forces Inflicted Burns • 2. Severe Beating by Security Forces • Two case studies of the killing of civilians by Government forces • 1. Killing of three children and a teacher at Kandenga School, 18 April 1977 • 2. 35 Civilians killed at Dabwa and 31 injured, 6 May 1977 • What is the policy towards civilians? • A survey of security legislation in Rhodesia • The War -myth and reality [The pamphlet says this report was prepared by members of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace inside Rhodesia. At the end of August 1977, even before the report was released, the Smith government arrested four commission members in connection with the compilation of the document. Sister Janice McLaughlin, an American, was held in detention for three weeks and then deported. John Deary, Brother Joseph Depuis and Father Dieter Scholz have been charged under the law and order and official secrets act.]

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Rhodesia - The Propaganda War

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