Moyo Calls For Justice On Gukurahundi Perpetrators
By Robert Tapfumaneyi EXILED former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo says those who took part in the early 1980s civilian massacres in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces should face justice for the crimes. An estimated 20 000 civilians died in the hands of the Zimbabwean military which had been deployed from 1982 to 1987 by then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe’s government ostensibly to hunt down some army deserters who were sympathetic to then opposition rival and former Vice President Joshua Nkomo. Despite massive evidence of the brutalities in the period now commonly referred to as Gukurahun...