Zimbabwe’s National Peace and Reconciliation Commission, has started taking the bull by its horns, by entering the most affected communities of Matabeleland North, South and Midlands.
Matebeleland must be compensated and the murders acknowledged and documented so that these things do not take place again. Until this month when some of Zimbabwe’s finest lawyers announced they are taking the matter up for the first time ever since the atrocities were committed, the healing and reconciliation on Gukurahundi had been a pipe dream for the people of Matabeleland. [-Click to listen – AUDIO: RIGHT Click to download]
The Matabeleland people have been crying foul over the deaths of 22 000 of their relatives, who were massacred by notorious 5th Brigade, a process carried out in the name of restoring normalcy. Pressure groups and opposition politicians have been lobbied by the people of the region, who demand the offenders to be brought to book.
The first consultation which started in Bulawayo today, at the Large City Hall Car Park, has opened the first phase into healing process, as evidenced in this comprehensive interview with Human Rights Researcher on transitional justice, Dzikamai Bere.
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kuyini khonokhu? Lawyers that have been representing the ngenuine victims know nothing about this? Are these people not looking for money using the gukurahundi issue? Are these not the very perpetrators of the genocide now coming back to do nosense? Why was the commemoration of gukurahundi denied while they are allowed to go openly themselves? Is it not run by soldiers and CIOs together with some funny individuals.