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How Ndebeles 'got themselves killed' during Gukurahundi

25 Mar 2018 at 07:53hrs | Views
In his first interview after he was subjected to a very humiliating coup by his close confidantes and fellow genocidists, the remorseless and unrepentant former President Mugabe has again blamed Matabeleland genocide (gukurahundi) on Matebele civilians.

"If we are to tell the truth, its the Ndebele and Zapu and Zipra who should bear the blame", he said. Many may wonder why Ndebele civilians are mentioned in the same sentence as Zapu and Zipra.

Remember Ndebeles of all walks of life, Zapu and Zipra were given a collective name "dissidents". So according to Mugabe and Shona supremacist, all Ndebele civilians including children, women, old people and the unborn babies are dissidents. To use another leading genocidist's words, Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is the current president, all the above were cockroaches that needed to be exterminated using DDT ( Zimbabwe National Army 5th Brigade).

As the Commander in Chief of the National Army, 5th Brigade has spoken, it is now cristal clear that there were no dissidents in Matabeleland other than Ndebeles, ZAPU and Zipra. Which leaves us without any question or doubt that Ndebele civilians were the target of the genocidists and that the genocide was not a mistake or recklessness of the Zimbabwe National Army 5th Brigade. But it was an ordered genocide against Matabeles.

 A responsible father will not burn the house with children inside because there is a rat. Unless his intention is to kill children.

Since 1980, Mugabe always thought the coup that would depose him was going to come from Matabeleland. How wrong he was! In his own words he has admitted: "I never thought he whom I had nurtured and brought into government and whose life I worked so hard in prison to save as he was threatened with hanging, that one day he would be the man who would turn against me."

Now let us hear him blame the coup on Shonas, Zanupf and former Zanla forces, form Gukurahundi and start murdering Shona civilians. Dololo! Why not? Is this not more evidence that killings in Matabeleland were pure acts of genocide?

As proof that Shona people were taught that all Ndebeles are dissidents and that they still view them as such, in 2005 MDC split on tribal lines and Ndebele leaders, Vice President, Gibson Sibanda, Secretary General Welshman Ncube and Secretary of Information and Publicity, Paul Themba Nyathi were called dissidents, stoned and chased away from Mashonaland.

As resent as three months ago Vice President of MDC T, Thokozani Khupe was called a dissident. She was nearly burned alive in a thatched hut by MDC T Shona supremacist while she attended Morgan Tsvangirai's funeral in Bohera. Look how the evil spirit of Gukurahundi is blowing from one Zimbabwean political party to another, and look how it is passed from generation to generation.

A danger warning sign that it is a matter of time before we see another Matebele genocide. The fact that the perpetrators of genocide are walking free, either threatening another genocide or justifying the previous one through statements or so called Shona dominated Commission for Healing and Peace, adds fuel to the fire.

Genocide perpetrators must not be given room in the communities as they are a danger to the public. If anything they deserve to rot in prison. Allow them to live within communities and be rulers then the evil spirit they have planted in the hearts of Shona people will live long even after their deaths to torment Zimbabwe. Genocide after genocide it will be.

In this period of easter, we remind all Matebeles of Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus Christ because of love for money. He brought Jesus Christ's enemies armed with swords and clubs to kill him.

Enos Nkala brought Mthwakazi enemies ie Shona Supremacists and Zimbabwe National Army 5th Brigade armed with AKs and swords to kill more than 40 000 innocent Matabele civilians.

We warn other Judases in the Zimbabwe political projects not to paint their hands red with the blood of their innocent brothers for the love of money. We say this amid Obert Mpofu's promise that he will bring Mthwakazi enemies in the form of Shona Supremacists and Zimbabwe Republic Police to arrest and abuse innocent Matabeles for protesting against the Shona domininated Commission for Healing and Peace.

Indeed as someone once said, the body is like that of an elephant but the brain is like that of a rat.

Genocidists in Rwanda were arrested and tried. Perpetrators of Holocaust in Germany are prosecuted even up to this day. But Matabeleland genocide perpetrators are treated like kings and queens in Zimambwe. Zimbabwe is Zimbabwe. Things are done in a particularly strange way, That's why Matebeles must revive the statehood of Matabeleland and as leave as soon as possible while they are still alive.

Source - Wilson Mahlafuna Sibanda Khohliso Maqhoba
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