Finding mercy /

At the age of eight, filmmaker Robyn Paterson greeted Comrade Robert Mugabe with flowers as he stepped from a plane at a Zimbabwe air-force base. She and her best friend, Mercy, were poster children for the new Zimbabwe. Robyn as pale skinned as Mercy was dark, the girls were a symbol that all was w...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Patterson, Robyn (Narrator, Director), Pooley, Leanne (Producer)
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Language Notes:	This edition in English.
Published:	France : Java Films, 2012.
Series:	Current affairs in video
Subjects:	Zimbabwe > History. Zimbabwe > Politics and government. Zimbabwe > Histoire. Zimbabwe > Politique et gouvernement. Politics and government Zimbabwe. Documentaries and Factual Films Documentary films. History. Documentaires.
Online Access:	Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)

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Summary:	At the age of eight, filmmaker Robyn Paterson greeted Comrade Robert Mugabe with flowers as he stepped from a plane at a Zimbabwe air-force base. She and her best friend, Mercy, were poster children for the new Zimbabwe. Robyn as pale skinned as Mercy was dark, the girls were a symbol that all was well in the independent nation. But it was not. Only a few miles away, Mercy's Matabele tribespeople were being massacred by Mugabe's special forces.
Item Description:	Title from resource description page (viewed May 9, 2014).
Physical Description:	1 online resource (44 min.).
Playing Time:	00:44:07