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Ibhetshu LikaZulu commemorates Gukurahundi Massacres
20 Jan 2016 at 07:36hrs | Views
Bulawayo based pressure group Ibhetshu LikaZulu plan to commemorate the notorious Gukurahundi Massacres that began on 20, January of 1982.
"Today the 20th of January is the day in which it assumed it's the day Gukurahundi started, so will be having the commemoration on Saturday" it said in a brief statement.
The event is a remembrance of an estimated 20 000 largely Ndebele speaking people who perished in Matabeleland and Midlands in the 1980s, in what has become known as the Gukurahundi Massacres.
The commemorations run under the theme - Gukurahundi massacres: Searching for peace and national healing through compensation
"Today the 20th of January is the day in which it assumed it's the day Gukurahundi started, so will be having the commemoration on Saturday" it said in a brief statement.
The event is a remembrance of an estimated 20 000 largely Ndebele speaking people who perished in Matabeleland and Midlands in the 1980s, in what has become known as the Gukurahundi Massacres.
The commemorations run under the theme - Gukurahundi massacres: Searching for peace and national healing through compensation
Source - Byo24News
