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Group lobbies for Gukurahundi $2 million compensation to each victim
23 Apr 2012 at 06:42hrs | Views
The Zimbabwe United People's Advocacy Group (Zupac), a local pressure group, is demanding that government pays at least US$2 million to each victim of the Gukurahundi atrocities committed in the early years of independence.
The human rights group recently petitioned Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who later raised the issue of compensation in parliament. Zupac national chairperson Zwangendaba Reason Sibanda said the group embarked on this initiative after realising that the country has a huge mineral resource base and government can afford to compensate each of the victims, the Standard reported.
He said government must compensate victims of Gukurahundi and and also those of the 2008 politically motivated violence, in the same spirit that it rewarded war veterans for their role in the liberation struggle. He said victims of the 2005 clean-up campaign, termed operation Murambatsvina, must also be compensated.
Sibanda said the petition to Tsvangirai was the second after the first one sent to President Robert Mugabe and his deputy Joice Mujuru in September last year was ignored by the presidency.
Zupac claims to have 4 712 000 members comprising victims of Gukurahundi, Operation Murambatsvina, communities displaced by diamond mining in Manicaland province and those affected by the 2008 politically-motivated violence.
The human rights group recently petitioned Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who later raised the issue of compensation in parliament. Zupac national chairperson Zwangendaba Reason Sibanda said the group embarked on this initiative after realising that the country has a huge mineral resource base and government can afford to compensate each of the victims, the Standard reported.
He said government must compensate victims of Gukurahundi and and also those of the 2008 politically motivated violence, in the same spirit that it rewarded war veterans for their role in the liberation struggle. He said victims of the 2005 clean-up campaign, termed operation Murambatsvina, must also be compensated.
Sibanda said the petition to Tsvangirai was the second after the first one sent to President Robert Mugabe and his deputy Joice Mujuru in September last year was ignored by the presidency.
Zupac claims to have 4 712 000 members comprising victims of Gukurahundi, Operation Murambatsvina, communities displaced by diamond mining in Manicaland province and those affected by the 2008 politically-motivated violence.
Source - standard
