Zimbabweans a forgotten generation
I can still
remember on 18th April 1980 when the United Kingdom then under iron lady
Margaret Thatcher handed over power to Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. It was a
cheerful moment to everyone's life with people celebrating in every corner of
the country. Although a few years later the nation encountered an attempted
rebellion believed to have been orchestrated by disgruntled army disators who
were later nicknamed dissidents. The dissidents’ error nearly crippled the
newly born Zimbabwe. In retaliation the Mugabe government blamed the opposition
for creating this armed group. During that period a group of British tourist were kidnaped along a Lupane highway by these so called dissidents. The tourist were never found and at that time Prime Minister Robert Mugabe was a white boy taking orders from west minister UK. The parents of British tourist were broadcast on ZBC TV nationwide with their mothers crying for return of their beloved ones, but it was too late because the tourist were dead. The British government sent scientist to Zimbabwe to look and identify graves with the help of Zanupf government that were thought to be of tourist. The British scientist were said that they could identify a person by taking samples of scratched bones. It was then when Prime Minister Robert Mugabe
decided to deploy his Korean trained 5th Brigade in Matebeleland where he
accused the opposition of harboring the armed dissidents. The 5th Brigade had
special orders to kidnap, kill and rape women of ndebele speaking people from
that region. An estimated 30000 innocent civilians were butchered day and night
without fear or respect of human dignity. Generations lost bread winners,
fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters. The region was neglected ever since and
human suffering never spared sympathy. The land distribution programme was only
a political manipulating tool designed to divert a free and fair peoples vote
to benefit the few. The world is watching, where is the United Nations and
super power United States of America, United Kingdom and European Union. France
has gone back to Mali to spare help for troubled human kind. The perpetrators
of Rwandan genocide were later hunted down and brought to justice. The Liberian
warlord who is still accused of recruiting child soldiers was taken to the
international criminal court of justice. What stops the international community
from issuing a warrant of arrest against Robert Mugabe? I think Zimbabweans
need to move forward with human dignity. The liberation ideology is still
lingering and now haunting current and new generations who never witnessed a
part of it. How is the legacy of liberation struggle going to be justified to
victims of the Gukurahundi Massacre and oppressed generations? Shall we take up
arms again?
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