Gukurahundi victims yearn for closure

CASES of sexual abuse such as rape, sodomy and indecent assault are traumatic for victims the world over including Zimbabwe. The country has experienced tumultuous political climate since the early 1980s during the government-sponsored genocide — Gukurahundi — which is believed to have left over 20 000 people in Matabeleland and the Midlands dead.

Efforts by survivors and their relatives to get closure by engaging government, then led by former Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, who became President in 1987, have flunked despite several commissions being put in place to gather facts about the killings.

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