Description: | This arpillera, the second in a series of two, graphically portrays the destruction of the Killarney informal settlement in Zimbabwe in May 2005, during Operation Murambatsvina in which the government of Zimbabwe, deploying the army and police, purposefully destroyed housing around the country.
The women who made this arpillera are all from Killarney informal settlement; all lost their homes in 2005. The chilling images accompanied by the simple statements “They burnt our homes” “Trucks collected us” and “our chairs were outside” convey the devastation of this government sanctioned operation, in which an estimated 500,000 people were evicted and displaced in the space of a month.
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