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Ziyambi Says Arresting Gukurahundi Perpetrators Is Violation Of Mugabe's General Amnesty Declaration

1 year agoWed, 24 Aug 2022 09:51:58 GMT
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Ziyambi Says Arresting Gukurahundi Perpetrators Is Violation Of Mugabe's General Amnesty Declaration

Zimbabwe’s Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Ziyambi Ziyambi has said arresting perpetrators of Gukurahundi would be a violation of the general amnesty declaration made by the late former President Robert Mugabe.

Ziyambi made the remarks last week while addressing the 107th session of the International Convention on Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) held in Geneva.

He also said the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) would come up with a solution to appease the aggrieved families and victims. NewsDay Zimbabwe cites him as saying:

Soon after independence, we had a commotion. I also lost relatives to dissidents. We cannot arrest the Gukurahundi perpetrators because the issue was dealt with when Robert Mugabe (the late former Zimbabwean President) declared a general amnesty. If we continue to arrest those that partook in the atrocities it would be a violation of the general amnesty declaration.

He said ethnic minorities are not discriminated against, adding that the government had initiated programmes to provide civil registration documents to ethnic minorities.

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Ziyambi, who led the delegation, also claimed that the Private Voluntary Organisation Amendment Bill is not discriminatory.

Approximately 20 000 people were killed in Midlands and Matabeleland in the aftermath of independence when Mugabe deployed the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade to “deal with” alleged dissidents.

Victims have been demanding that perpetrators be brought to book, truth-telling and compensation.

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