Chinese weapons shipment to Zimbabwe - documentation

As most people know, Zimbabwe is run by an illegal government.

The Guardian in the UK has published a video showing how civil servants voted - under the watchful eye of a supervisor!

It also reveals that those who didn't vote would be hunted down and killed in the event Mugabe had lost.  Although with a rigged election, how could he lose?

Some time ago we heard about Chinese weapons being sent to Zimbabwe to help Mugabe assist his subjects to vote.  Well, here are scanned documents of various shipping lists etc:
Zimbabwe Chinese weapons shipment documentation [2008]

As the WikiLeaks site explains:

The ZIP file contains 4 scanned documents in PDF form, presenting information on a recent chinese weapons shipment to Zimbabwe. The documents are dated between January 21st and 10th of March 2008.

Document 1 holds an arrival notification for the Ministry of Defence in Zimbabwe related to 77 tons of Arms shipped in 3080 cases from a shipper Poly Technologies (INC). Document 2 presents the commercial invoice from Poly Technologies related to that shipment, detailing a purchase of 3,004,755 rounds of different ammunition, from 7.62 shells to mortar bombs. Document 3 holds the Packing List for this shipment. Document 4, while being in very bad quality holds another confirmation of the shipment in form of the Bill Of Lading.

And then for those interested in Telkom, there is Telkom South Africa contracts and filings [2008] - "A collection of contracts and corporate filings from South Africa's "Telkom" telecommunications corporation, which reveal, among other matters, how Telkom aggressively protects its monopoly status."

Ah, Telkom, aggressively providing a service.  [What to replace that with???]

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