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Mugabe to unleash Gukurahundi on war veterans
10 Jun 2016 at 07:13hrs | Views
President Robert Mugabe on Thursday openly threatened a crackdown on war veterans similar to the Gukurahundi massacres, accusing them of pushing for Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa to succeed him.
Mugabe (92) was addressing a central committee meeting at the Zanu PF headquarters Thursday afternoon.
"Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans was formed to cater for the welfare of our veterans and not to champion the struggle for political change, not to be the boss of the party and never to be the bully of the party, nor the entity to make the choices of who should be and who should not, never ever! Expect within the party, always within the party and not outside the party," said Mugabe.
Mugabe added : "The dissidents tried it, they were war veterans and you know what happened. Lots of trouble, lots of fighting, lots of suffering of cause to our people, and these dissents activities cannot be allowed
"Do we see another rise of dissident activity?
"The leadership with our experience say no for a war veterans association, it's not your function, it's not your business to talk a lot on who shall succeed the President..."
"Dissident activities cannot be allowed; it ended in December 1987 when Cde Joshua Nkomo and I put our hands together and our hearts together to say never again shall we allow this to happen."
Mugabe (92) was addressing a central committee meeting at the Zanu PF headquarters Thursday afternoon.
"Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans was formed to cater for the welfare of our veterans and not to champion the struggle for political change, not to be the boss of the party and never to be the bully of the party, nor the entity to make the choices of who should be and who should not, never ever! Expect within the party, always within the party and not outside the party," said Mugabe.
Mugabe added : "The dissidents tried it, they were war veterans and you know what happened. Lots of trouble, lots of fighting, lots of suffering of cause to our people, and these dissents activities cannot be allowed
"The leadership with our experience say no for a war veterans association, it's not your function, it's not your business to talk a lot on who shall succeed the President..."
"Dissident activities cannot be allowed; it ended in December 1987 when Cde Joshua Nkomo and I put our hands together and our hearts together to say never again shall we allow this to happen."
Source - online
