War veterans slam Tsvangarai's move to compensate victims of political violence

The Zimbabwe War veterans have castigated MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai over utterances he made about compensating victims of political violence from his party describing the move as political grandstanding which is aimed at inciting unemployed youths into political violence, ZBC News reported.

The War veterans say Tsvangirai's desperation to win votes by promising members of his party some money will do more damage than good saying this could culminate in fuelling a culture of violence among Zimbabweans.

According to ZBC News some war veterans said Tsvangirai should think of compensating thousands of families which were directly affected by the war of liberation instead of concentrating on divisive politicking.

Other survivors of the war of liberation questioned the source of such funding at a time the country is facing serious liquidity problems and urged the Prime Minister to desist from acting like an opposition leader and help in rebuilding  the nation.

Early last week, Tsvangirai was quoted by some sections of the media saying he has set up a fund to compensate what he termed political violence victims of his party without taking into cognisance that some of the so-called victims were actually perpetrators of such barbaric activities, according to state controlled ZBC News.