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LONDON (AP) - Amnesty International on Wednesday released the first satellite images of the rubble of an informal settlement in Zimbabwe that had been home to 30,000 of the country's poorest people.
The London-based human rights group said the images of Porta Farm provided the best evidence to date of the devastating impact of the government's Operation Murambatsvina, or "Drive Out Trash," which has demolished many such settlements to force people back to the rural areas.
The United Nations estimates that 700,000 of Zimbabwe's poorest residents have lost their homes, their livelihoods, or both.
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