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Geoff Nyarota backs Coltart on Mnangagwa's gukurahundi comments
23 Mar 2016 at 12:51hrs | Views
Former Chronicle editor, Geoffrey Nyarota has backed David Coltart in challenging Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa to sue him.
Mnangagwa has been irked by Coltart's new book that puts him at the heart of the Gukurahundi atrocities.
In his autobiography, Coltart highlighted the inflammatory remarks that were reportedly made by Mnangagwa in 1983, that appeared to urge the North Korea-trained Fifth Brigade to escalate their operations in the Matabeleland and Midlands provinces - resulting in the death of many innocent people.
Mnangagwa served as State Security minister at the time of what later came to be known as the Gukurahundi massacres.
However, the VP has always denied responsibility for the mass slaughter of mainly Ndebeles during that time.
Nyarota, who was editor of the Chronicle at the height of the atrocities, said Mnangagwa would be ill-advised to sue.
Below is his fill statement:
Mnangagwa has been irked by Coltart's new book that puts him at the heart of the Gukurahundi atrocities.
In his autobiography, Coltart highlighted the inflammatory remarks that were reportedly made by Mnangagwa in 1983, that appeared to urge the North Korea-trained Fifth Brigade to escalate their operations in the Matabeleland and Midlands provinces - resulting in the death of many innocent people.
Mnangagwa served as State Security minister at the time of what later came to be known as the Gukurahundi massacres.
However, the VP has always denied responsibility for the mass slaughter of mainly Ndebeles during that time.
Nyarota, who was editor of the Chronicle at the height of the atrocities, said Mnangagwa would be ill-advised to sue.
Below is his fill statement:
Source - Byo24News
