Zimbabwe Police Fire Tear Gas At Bank Note Protest
Muhammad Rameez Published November 30, 2016 | 08:30 PM
HARARE, , (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 30th Nov, 2016 ) - Riot police in Zimbabwe fired tear gas and beat up opposition protesters marching Wednesday through Harare against the new "bond note" Currency, an AFP reporter said.
Zimbabwe's central bank on Monday rolled out the "bond notes" -- equivalent to the US Dollar -- to ease critical cash shortages, despite fears of a return to the hyperinflation that wiped out many people's savings in 2009.
About 100 activists from the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and the pressure group Tajamuka were chanting anti-government songs when police moved in to disperse them. The protesters also carried placards denouncing the economic policies of President Robert Mugabe, 92, whose 36-year authoritarian rule has come under increasing public criticism this year.
"Bond notes = Toilet tissue" read one placard, as others declared "No To Bond Notes" and called Mugabe "a limping donkey". Police confronted the marchers with tear gas and water cannon, and beat up several of them with rubber truncheons.
Some shops in the capital's central business district pulled down their shutters as police chased after the demonstrators. "We are not going to embrace bond notes," Hardlife Mudzingwa, a spokesman for Tajamuka, told AFP. "They are being used to mop up the US Dollars that people have in their accounts so that top government officials can import their personal goods."
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