Gukurahundi: MDC parties under fire

Bulawayo residents yesterday blasted MPs from both MDC parties for agreeing to limit the mandate of the Zimbabwe Human Right Commission (ZHRC) to investigating rights violations that occurred after February 2009.

The move by the two parties — as a trade-off or compromise to buy Zanu PF’s support in steering the ZHRC Bill — means that perpetrators of Gukurahundi will not be indicted by local courts.

Justice minister Patrick Chinamasa on Tuesday told Parliament that negotiators from the three political parties in the Global Political Agreement (GPA) had agreed that the commission’s work must be restricted to the time after the formation of the inclusive government.

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