Don’t muzzle Gukurahundi survivors: UN

THE United Nations (UN) Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration to stop restricting Gukurahundi survivors from mourning and holding commemorative events for their massacred relatives.

Suspected State security agents have on several occasions destroyed memorial plaques erected in memory of thousands of people that were killed during the 1980s Gukurahundi genocide, with some of the victims buried in mass graves in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces.

In its findings published on Tuesday following a periodic review on Zimbabwe last week, the committee also urged the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) to fulfil its mandate to provide a platform for post-conflict resolution.

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