Gukurahundi victims snub repatriation offer

THE repatriation of hundreds of survivors of Gukurahundi atrocities and political violence victims scheduled for early this year has been shelved amid reports that some of them had backtracked on plans to return home.

Over 300 of the 700-plus Zimbabwean refugees living at Dukwe Refugee Camp, about 120km from Francistown, Botswana, were expected to be repatriated via the Plumtree Border Post in January, but only a family of four has arrived.

Their return was voluntary, but the rest of the survivors were reportedly reluctant to come back, arguing that President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government could not be trusted because it was the same Zanu PF which had persecuted them.

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