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Mugabe forced Joshua Nkomo into exile, says Tsvangirai
22 Apr 2017 at 07:32hrs | Views
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has claimed that late Vice President Joshua Nkomo was forced into exile by then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe soon after the attainment of independence due to greedy and being power hungry.
Tsvangirai said Nkomo was exiled not by the racist settler regime of Ian Douglas Smith, but by his own comrade in arms, President Robert Mugabe.
"His exiling was not motivated by anything other than power and its retention at all cost. The cost of that power retention agenda was the massacre of 20 000 of our fellow citizens in Midlands and Matabeleland," he said.
"President Mugabe, as Prime Minister, presided over these senseless killings. His response to the cry for a simple apology and for transitional justice was that it was a "moment of madness". Really? Was it one moment of madness or more than 20 000 moments of madness? To us it was more-----it can only be described as cruel, unbridled, State sponsored terrorism. Cruelty manifested in divisive politics of hate, violence, intolerance, racism and tribalism which form part of the DNA of Zanu-PF."
He said this, MDC-T will put an end to it come 2018 tot through retribution but restitution.
Tsvangirai said Nkomo was exiled not by the racist settler regime of Ian Douglas Smith, but by his own comrade in arms, President Robert Mugabe.
"President Mugabe, as Prime Minister, presided over these senseless killings. His response to the cry for a simple apology and for transitional justice was that it was a "moment of madness". Really? Was it one moment of madness or more than 20 000 moments of madness? To us it was more-----it can only be described as cruel, unbridled, State sponsored terrorism. Cruelty manifested in divisive politics of hate, violence, intolerance, racism and tribalism which form part of the DNA of Zanu-PF."
He said this, MDC-T will put an end to it come 2018 tot through retribution but restitution.
Source - Byo24News
