Remains of Zimbabwe’s 1980s Gukurahundi atrocities victims exhumed

By Samuel Abuya

The remains of men, women and children who were tortured and killed in Zimbabwe by the North Korean-trained troops in what would later on be known as the Gukurahundi atrocities have been exhumed thanks to the peace and reconciliation initiative that was started by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Thembi Ngwenya, one the Gukurahundi atrocities remains who were exhumed on Sunday, was fatally shot and killed in 1983 and buried along the railway line in Matabeleland North Province following a brutal crackdown on the opposition just a few years into the country’s independence.

“President Mnangagwa said people should talk freely about Gukurahundi. This will help us move on as a nation,” the Peace and Reconciliation Commission Chairman Sello Nare said.

President Mnangagwa was Zimbabwe’s spymaster during the Gukurahundi atrocities when thousands of civilians were killed in the name of dealing with an insurgency.

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