Harare - President Robert Mugabe yesterday said the killing of a war veteran leader, whose murder sparked a wave of violence, was part of an international conspiracy against his government. The Zimbabwe leader accused the British government and Zimbabwe's white farmers of funding the "terrorist" activities which led to the murder of Cain Nkala early this month.
"Nkala's brutal murder was a bloody outcome of an orchestrated much wider and carefully planned terrorist plot by internal and external enemy forces with plenty of funding from some commercial farmers and organisations," Mr Mugabe said at the funeral yesterday .
Police said Mr Nkala had been strangled with shoelaces and buried in a shallow grave at a farm outside Bulawayo. The discovery of the body led to violent clashes between opposition and the ruling ZANU-PF party supporters.