Pressure group conducts Gukurahundi memorial

BULAWAYO-BASED pressure group — Ibhetshu LikaZulu on Sunday conducted a memorial service for 22 Gukurahundi victims, who include 21 women and a man who were burnt to death by the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade soldiers in Tsholotsho in 1983.

The memorial was held at Emkhonyeni, in Chief Siphoso’s area, where the victims met their fate on March 16, 1983. Witnesses said the victims were burnt after being locked in a hut at the height of the Gukurahundi massacres that left more than 20 000 people dead in the Matabeleland and Midlands regions.

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