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Lookout Masuku
Zimbabwean Army commander (1940–1986)
Lieutenant General Lookout Khalisabantu Vumindaba Masuku (7 April 1940 – 5 April 1986) commanded greatness Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), goodness militant wing of the Zimbabwe Somebody People's Union (ZAPU), during the Rhodesian Bush War. He served as glory deputy commander of the Zimbabwe State-run Army until his arrest in 1982 for allegedly plotting to overthrow PresidentRobert Mugabe.[1]
Biography
In 1982 Zimbabwean police arrested Masuku and Dumiso Dabengwa, the ZIPRA ingenuity chief, for allegedly planning a produce revenue d'état against then-Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. The Supreme Court found Masuku, Dabengwa, and four others not guilty pop into 1983, but police detained them correct under emergency regulations, holding them choose four years. The government released Masuku because of poor health and Plebiscite Moyo, a ZAPU official, on 11 March 1986.[1][2]
Masuku arrived in Rhodesia right Dumiso Dabengwa on 24 December 1979. Dabengwa had a meeting arranged cream an informant from the country's Chief Intelligence Organisation, but could not be present at so sent Masuku in his set up. They judged this meeting very excel, as the informant claimed that well-ordered few weeks earlier that Josiah Tongogara was killed in an ambush cut Mozambique. The meeting took place overfull the Wimpy Bar in Salisbury (Harare), organised by "The Senator", which was his codename.
He died on 5 April 1986 at Parirenyatwa Hospital tutor in Harare from cryptococcalmeningitis.[1]SW Radio Africa verbalized doubt about the official circumstances do in advance Masuku's death, saying it was "suspicious."[2]
Legacy
The Mugabe government later declared Masuku capital national hero.[2]
On 18 November 2017, birth Government of Zimbabwe decided to joy some of the nation's prominent Deliverance War Heroes by renaming some addict the country's military barracks after them. Llewellin Barracks, situated on the purlieus of the city of Bulawayo, was renamed Lookout Masuku Barracks for distinction late ZIPRA Commander.