1893 MHRRM condemns state and Zanu PF's terrorism in Matebeleland

As 1893 MHRRM, we take this opportunity to condemn the bombing and the continued importation of violent acts by the perpetrators of Gukurahundi and their allies into Matebeleland.

As a peace-loving people, we strongly feel that this kind of bombing, are acts of intimidation to our people who were subjected to Genocide and mass starvation between 1983 to 1987. It is meant to ferment apprehension and instil fear on our people as elections approach. It is also meant to present Emmerson Mnangagwa as the invincible and perennial survivor of assassination attempts, in the process giving him the opportunity to gain international sympathy and favourability.

From recent years and as from the year 2017 up to date there have been several violent acts that have been perpetrated by the leaders of ZANU PF in Matebeleland.

We have witnessed the poisoning of the then Vice President of ZANU PF Mr ED Mnangagwa in Gwanda in the year 2017 which was followed by a series of clashes of Zanu PF party factions in Bulawayo at White City Stadium, leading to the booing of the then President, Robert Gabriel Mugabe. These clashes and incidents culminated in the firing of Mr ED Mnangagwa leading to the November coup that saw him becoming the coup President of the Republic of Zimbabwe.

In the past few days, we have witnessed the bombing incident at the White City Stadium, in a Zanu PF organized rally. We feel this is part of Zanu PF's strategy to intimidate Matebeleland and label Matebeleland as a hostile territory where acts of terrorism are committed and yet these acts are imported into Matebeleland by Zanu PF itself.

At the blast of that bomb last week, Matebeleland was instantly turned into a police territory with full scale deployment of the security apparatus of the state. It must be pointed out that this kind of Zimbabwean state behaviour has been in existence since 1980, when Zanu PF committed an ethnic genocide and mass starvation of our people on the pretext that the white tourists were kidnapped by the people of Matebeleland. The whole world was sold a dummy at the time for the justification of a Gukurahundi Genocide that had long been planned.

These acts of genocide and terrorism and violence are meant to sabotage Matebeleland and harm and soil the good name of our territory as well as violet the Human Rights of our people to safety, peace, investment and development.

The 1893 MHRRM condemns the importation of terrorism to Matebeleland and urges the international community to intervene to halt Zanu PF's inspired violence that seeks to use Matebeleland as its playground for its terrorist activities committed for the soul pretext and justification to deploy the security apparatus of the state to intimidate our people and cow them to vote Zanu PF in the coming elections.

The continued turning of Matebeleland into Zanu PF's rivers and rivulets of "blood" (Matebele Gukurahundi Genocide), rivers and rivulets of assassin poisons, firestorms of bombs and into Zanu PF's bastion of terrorism is condemned by the 1893 MHRRM and the generality of the peace-loving people of Matebeleland and those of the wider progressive world.
 
Released by the 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement Information and Publicity Department