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Lookout Masuku
Zimbabwean Army commander (1940–1986)
Lieutenant General Lookout Khalisabantu Vumindaba Masuku (7 April 1940 – 5 April 1986) commanded the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), the militant wing of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), during the Rhodesian Bush War.
He served as the deputy commander of the Zimbabwe National 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 intelligence chief, for allegedly planning a coup d'état against then-Prime Minister Robert Mugabe.
The Supreme Court found Masuku, Dabengwa, and four others not guilty in 1983, but police detained them again under emergency regulations, holding them for four years. The government released Masuku because of poor health and Vote Moyo, a ZAPU official, on 11 March 1986.[1][2]
Masuku arrived in Rhodesia with Dumiso Dab