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Trouble for Team NK in Zim
May. 2nd, 2010 11:09 amN.Korea World Cup base moved to Harare
The Zimbabwe government has decided to move the base of the North Korean football team to Harare, the capital, after protests threatened in the western city of Bulawayo over that country's involvement in massacres there in the 1980s.
The North Korean squad for the World Cup in South Africa was originally set to be quartered in Bulawayo.
Activists in the city had declared they would demonstrate against the team's presence, after North Korean army instructors in 1983 trained the newly-formed Zimbabwean army brigade that went on to slaughter thousands of civilians during a small insurgency in the western provinces of Matabeleland.
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The Zimbabwe government has decided to move the base of the North Korean football team to Harare, the capital, after protests threatened in the western city of Bulawayo over that country's involvement in massacres there in the 1980s.
The North Korean squad for the World Cup in South Africa was originally set to be quartered in Bulawayo.
Activists in the city had declared they would demonstrate against the team's presence, after North Korean army instructors in 1983 trained the newly-formed Zimbabwean army brigade that went on to slaughter thousands of civilians during a small insurgency in the western provinces of Matabeleland.
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