Zimbabwe will soon conduct public hearings around the Gukurahundi killings that took place between 1982 and 1986. During that period, thousands of mainly Ndebele-speaking people from the Matabeleland regions were detained by government forces. Some were tortured and raped while others were executed. Although there are no exact figures on hand as to how many were killed, more than 20,000 people are believed to have been massacred and thousands more were displaced.
Various lobby groups have classified the massacre as genocide while the Zimbabwean government maintains it was a crackdown to purge dissidents.
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11 фев 2024
