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Rwandan fugitive Ukiliho Kayishema Fulgence has been captured in South Africa.
Kayishema, who was one of four remaining fugitives from the 1994 Rwandan genocide, was arrested in South Africa on Wednesday.
He is expected to face trial in Rwanda.
<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65709893">BBC</a> reported that the former police inspector, who was born in 1961, was charged in 2001 over the killing of more than 2 000 Tutsi men, women and children inside a Catholic church where they had sought refuge.
According to the indictment by UN prosecutors, Kayishema directly participated in the planning and execution of a massacre of refugees hiding at the Nyange church in Kivumu, Kibuye prefecture, on 15 April 1994.
Kayishema, born in 1961, and others allegedly tried to burn the church down with the refugees inside.
When this failed, they bulldozed it, burying and killing all those hiding there.
The corpses of the victims were then buried in mass graves.
The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), which is based in The Hague, welcomed Kayishema’s arrest.
Kayishema was arrested by a South African elite police unit at a grape farm in Paarl, in Western Cape province.
He had been living under the false name of Donatien Nibashumba.
Kayishema made a first appearance in the Cape Town Magistrates Court on Friday.
The charges of genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide and crimes against humanity have been brought against him.
South African NPA spokesperson, Eric Ntabazalila, outside court said Kayishema also faces a charge of fraud. <a href="https://ewn.co.za/0001/01/01/more-charges-to-be-brought-against-rwandan-fugitive-fulgence">He said:</a>
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In January 2000, when he applied for asylum, he gave the wrong name indicating that he was from Burundi and then the one relating to the second charge of fraud, it’s when he was applying for refugee status in 2004 and he used the same names and claimed that he’s from Burundi.
</blockquote>
Some 800 000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in the Rwandan genocide.
More: <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a>

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Rwandan Fugitive Accused Of Killing 2 000 In Church Arrested

Zimbabwe has committed to cooperating in bringing to justice the perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
The Rwandan Genocide is one of the most notorious modern genocides which occurred between April and July 1994.
Almost one million ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutu were killed as the international community and UN peacekeepers stood by.
Zimbabwe’s acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Amon Murwira, said there cannot be justice and lasting peace without full accountability. <a href="https://www.newtimes.co.rw/article/6665/news/kwibuka/zimbabwe-commits-to-bring-perpetrators-of-1994-genocide-against-the-tutsi-to-justice">The New Times</a> quoted Murwira as saying:
<blockquote>
The primary responsibility to prevent and stop genocide lies with all of us.
On that note let me reaffirm Zimbabwe’s commitment to providing support to all international and continental efforts to bring to book those responsible for genocide in Rwanda and elsewhere.
We believe there cannot be justice and lasting peace without full accountability.
</blockquote>
Murwira was addressing Rwandans living in Zimbabwe, diplomats accredited to Zimbabwe, the business community and friends of Rwanda.
Last year, <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/zimbabwe-denies-hiding-rwandese-genocidaire-protais-mpiranya-full-statement/">Zimbabwe denied that it had harboured the most wanted Rwandese fugitive, Protais Mpiranya</a>, whose remains were found in Zimbabwe under the alias Ndume Sambao.
While Murwira committed Zimbabwe to bring to justice the perpetrators of the Rwanda Genocide, the Government of Zimbabwe is yet to bring to justice those responsible for the Gukurahundi killings in the 1980s.
Moreover, the findings of the Chihambakwe Commission of Inquiry, which was set up by the government to investigate Gkurahundi, were never made public.
The Government has also failed to bring to account those responsible for the 01 August 2018 killings as recommended by the Motlanthe Commission.
More: <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a>

Zimbabwe Commits To Bring Perpetrators Of 1994 Rwandan Genocide To Justice

Bulawayo-based pressure group, Ibhetshu LikaZulu, has criticised President Emmerson Mnangagwa for his visit to the Kigali Memorial on Wednesday to pay tribute to over 600 000 victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Mnangagwa, who is in Rwanda for the #AGRF2022 Summit, was accompanied by some Rwandan government officials to the site and laid a wreath in honour of the victims.
But Ibhetshu LikaZulu, which was formed in pursuit of justice for the victims of the Gukurahundi killings, labelled Mnangagwa’s tour of the Kigali Memorial hypocritical.
The group queried why Mnangagwa paid tribute to the victims of the Rwandan genocide when back home, suspected state agents have continued to deface and vandalise Gukurahundi memorials by activists and survivors. It said:
<blockquote>
Shocking that he poses there when in his country a genocide is still unresolved, thousands are lying in shallow graves, commemorative plaques erected by families are bombed and stolen! The irony of it is astounding.
</blockquote>
For instance, a Gukurahundi memorial plaque at Bhalagwe in Maphisa has been vandalised three times by suspected state security agents in just two years.
South African opposition leader Mmusi Maimane, commenting on a Twitter thread, also described Mnangagwa’s gesture as hypocritical. He wrote:
<blockquote>
Unbelievable. Hypocritical. Mnangagwa is a perpetrator of genocide.
</blockquote>
The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994, with members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group massacred by armed Hutu militias.
Meanwhile, Gukurahundi, which some have described as a genocide, was a military operation by the Zimbabwe National Army in the 1980s which resulted in the killing of an estimated 20 000 civilians, mainly Ndebele speakers. | <a href="https://www.zimlive.com/2022/09/two-faced-mnangagwa-honours-rwanda-genocide-victims/">ZimLive</a>

"Hypocritical", Mnangagwa Criticised For Honouring Rwandan Genocide Victims

National Assembly Speaker, Jacob Mudenda, has urged the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) to bring closure to the Gukurahundi issue before the 2023 elections.
Gukurahundi is a term used to refer to a military operation in Matabeleland and Midlands in the 1980s which resulted in the death of an estimated 20 000 Ndebele people.
Addressing the NPRC Commissioners during their induction on the role and functions of Parliament, Mudenda said the NPRC’s responsibility is to build national consensus for the peaceful resolution of human conflict. He said:
<blockquote>
Parliament is desirous to see how the NPRC leverages its constitutional mandate vis-à-vis the salutary efforts by the Council of Chiefs, as guided by His Excellency, the President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, in bringing closure to the Gukurahundi unfortunate historical antecedent before the 2023 harmonized elections.
It is axiomatic to note that the Constitution, the NPRC Act, and the NPRC Regulations impose an onerous responsibility in building national consensus, whose bedrock ought to be sustainable human conflict and solutions which must emanate from the co-existential culture of tolerance and respect for the other human dignity.
</blockquote>
In August last year, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced that chiefs will take a lead in resolving the issue of Gukurahundi, but not much has been done.
In recent days, political commentators have expressed doubt over the Government’s willingness to address the Gukurahundi issue after it emerged that Zimbabwe harboured Protais Mpiranya for four years before his death and burial in Harare in 2006.
Mpiranya, also known as Sambao Ndume, was a Rwandan war criminal who was internationally wanted for his alleged role in the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994 but was found dead and buried in Harare in 2022 by United Nations investigators.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/mudenda-tells-nprc-to-address-gukurahundi-before-2023-election/">NewZimbabwe.com</a></h4>

Mudenda Challenges NPRC To Address Gukurahundi Before 2023 Elections

The Rwandan Government was not amused by Zimbabwe’s characterisation of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi and moderate Hutu as the “1994 Rwandan Genocide”.
The Rwandan Embassy in Zimbabwe said that the genocide was against the Tutsi ethnic group and therefore could not be referred to as the Rwandan genocide.
In a tweet in response to the statement by Zimbabwe’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Fredrick Shava, denying that Zimbabwe harboured fugitive Rwandese Genocidaire Protais Mpiranya, the Rwandan Embassy <a href="https://twitter.com/RwandaZimbabwe/status/1525884697733214208">said:</a>
<blockquote>
The Embassy wishes to advise the correction of “1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda” as opposed to the way [it] is mentioned in the statement.
</blockquote>
In the statement, Shava said Zimbabwe fully cooperated with the UN Residual Mechanism in its investigations of Mpiranya.
The Rwandese fugitive was indicted in 2000 by the International Criminal Tribunal for his role in the 1994 Tutsi genocide.
Mpiranya was the head of the Rwandan presidential guard in 1994 when the genocide that killed up to 800 000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus occurred.
He allegedly gave his men a kill list of prominent Tutsis and orders to kill their families too.
He armed and trained the notorious Interahamwe Hutu militia, responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths.
When the plane carrying the country’s president, Juvénal Habyarimana, was shot down in Kigali on 5 April 1994, Mpiranya sent his men to set up roadblocks at which Tutsis were massacred.
Soldiers from the presidential guard murdered the prime minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana, a moderate Hutu, and mutilated her body.
Mpiranya’s men also shot the 10 lightly armed Belgian soldiers who had been sent to protect Uwilingiyimana and hacked them to death with machetes.
When the Hutu regime collapsed in July 1994, Mpiranya fled across Africa, spending four years in Cameroon before moving to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
In DRC, Mpiranya, with Hutu forces under his command, fought alongside Zimbabwean troops on behalf of the country’s president Laurent Kabila, against the Rwandan army.
In 2002, Mpiranya was reportedly flown from Mbuji-Mayi in central DRC to Harare on a Zimbabwean military plane.
Using a fake identity, he started a transport business in Zimbabwe likely with proceeds from Congolese diamonds but both his buses were involved in accidents and there was no money to repair them.
He died in Harare in October 2006 of a heart attack brought on by tuberculosis, at the age of 50 and was buried under a false name, Sambao Ndume whose date of birth matched his, 30 May 1956.
The French inscription on the tombstone read: “Here rests forever one who loved his fatherland, his people and his family, more than his own life.”
Protais Mpiranya’s body lies at Granville Cemetery, also known as kuMbudzi, hundreds of kilometres away from his country.
<h4>More: <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a></h4>

Rwanda Corrects Zimbabwe's Description Of The 1994 Genocide Against The Tutsi

The Zimbabwean Government has pledged to fully cooperate with the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) in matters of investigations into the whereabouts of the Rwandan Genocide fugitives, The New Times reported.
The IRMTC took over the work of two United Nations (UN) courts, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and that of former Yugoslavia (ICTY), after the two courts were dissolved.
Addressing the UN Security Council during a session to update the council on the activities of the IRMCT on Monday 13 December 2021, Serge Brammertz, Prosecutor of IRMCT, said:
<blockquote>
With respect to Zimbabwe, I undertook an official mission to Harare in early November, where I met with Vice President (Constantine) Chiwenga and other senior officials.
We discussed positive results achieved recently in our joint efforts, as well as key outstanding issues.
As a result of these discussions, I submitted a set of concrete recommendations on how to further improve our cooperation and reiterated our pending requests for vital information from Zimbabwean authorities.
While I have not yet received a response, I trust that in the coming period, I will be able to report that Zimbabwe is providing full and effective cooperation.
</blockquote>
Zimbabwe has for a long time been accused of harbouring Rwandese genocide fugitives.
Among those being sought by the UN Court and believed to be hiding in Zimbabwe is Protais Mpiranya.
He is the former commander of the Presidential Guards who allegedly spearheaded killings mainly in Kigali during the Genocide against the Tutsi.
Mpiranya is considered by the UN court as “Big Fish” and whom the Mechanism insists it must try before it is dissolved, The New Times further reported.
The remaining five fugitives, including Flugence Kayishema, are believed to be in South Africa.
The ICTR laid charges against the five but their files were later handed to Rwanda.
This means that in case of their arrest, they will be tried in Rwandan courts.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.newtimes.co.rw/news/prosecutor-zimbabwe-now-cooperating-apprehending-genocide-fugitive-mpiranya">The New Times</a></h4>

Zimbabwe Now Cooperating In Apprehending Rwandese Genocide Fugitives

The government has been criticised for its decision on Tuesday to a United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly measure that seeks to protect vulnerable populations against “genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.”
Several prominent Zimbabweans took to Twitter to express their outrage over the move that put the country in the same boat with the likes of North Korea, Russia, China, Burundi, and Eritrea, countries that are known for violating human rights with impunity.
Below are some of the views that Pindula News gleaned from the microblogging site:
<a href="https://twitter.com/SiphoMalunga/status/1395150852596269058" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Siphosami Malunga:</a> A Shocking-Embarrassing BUT also Unnecessary &amp; Ineffectual NO Vote:
Genocide, crimes against humanity &amp; war crimes are prohibited by customary international law. That means their prevention, prosecution &amp; punishment is obligatory/binding for all nations even if they vote ‘no’
<a href="https://twitter.com/zenzele/status/1395233128776704000" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Zenzele Ndebele:</a> With a history of committing a #Genocide in #Matebeleland Zimbabwe voted NO to the responsibility to protect and prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.. #Asakhe #Gukurahundi
<a href="https://twitter.com/Wamagaisa/status/1395283641207562240" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Alex Magaisa:</a> In 2018 I had a conversation with a diplomat at the UN in New York. He said the “New Dispensation” was going to take a new direction in international relations by ditching the image of being with the “bad boys gang”. It would abstain rather than vote. But some things never change.
<a href="https://twitter.com/daddyhope/status/1395116158324551687" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Hopewell Chin’ono:</a> Why did Mnangagwa’s regime vote against a UN resolution on the responsibility to protect and prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity? What does this mean about its commitment towards human rights and respect of international law? TRAGIC!!
<a href="https://twitter.com/Mamoxn/status/1395250313259540482" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Thandekile Moyo: </a>Did you guys expect Zanupf to vote yes? To the protection and prevention of genocide, 
War crimes, 
Ethnic cleansing, 
&amp; Crimes against humanity? 
For unrepentant perpetrators of such crimes, 
Voting yes would have been irrational. 
Zimbabwe is in the hands of criminals. 
#ZanuPfMustGo
<a href="https://twitter.com/likazulu/status/1395251014522085376" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Ibhetshu LikaZulu:</a> From the 17th to18/5/2021, the UN debated and voted on the “The responsibility to protect and the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity”. Zimbabwe voted against this resolution.
<a href="https://twitter.com/peterndoro/status/1395131487637450753" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Peter Ndoro:</a> It is hard to understand why #Zimbabwe, Burundi, Egypt and Eritrea would vote against a United Nations resolution on the responsibility to protect and the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. <img alt="😢" class="emoji" decoding="async" draggable="false" src="https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/1f622.png"/> Very sad.
<a href="https://twitter.com/DavidColtart/status/1395250528104427522" rel="noopener" target="_blank">David Coltart:</a> Zimbabweans these are the countries whose governments voted against a UN resolution on the responsibility to protect &amp; prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. This is a list of shame. The MDC Alliance will remove #Zimbabwe from this list.
<a href="https://twitter.com/Jamwanda2/status/1395253505007529984" rel="noopener" target="_blank">George Charamba:</a> Zimbabwe voted nyet (Russian for No) against this omnibus General Assembly Resolution especially because of the part of it to do with the responsibility to protect, R2P. Those with no sense of recent history or who mistakenly think western global imperial power is benign and benevolent, forget it was precisely this same clause – RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT – which was used to attack Gaddafi’s Libya, and which almost got invoked for use against Zimbabwe had it not been for the double veto by Russia and China!

Zimbabweans React As Govt Veto U.N. Resolution On Ending Genocide

Presidential spokesperson George Charamba said Zimbabwe voted against a United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly measure that seeks to protect vulnerable populations against genocide because of a part of the resolution that deals with the responsibility to protect.
Responsibility to Protect – known as R2P – is an international norm that empowers the international community to act to halt the mass atrocity crimes of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
Charamba argued that R2P was used to attack Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya, and was almost used by Western powers to invade Zimbabwe during the late Robert Mugabe era.
Pindula News present <a href="https://twitter.com/Jamwanda2/status/1395253505007529984" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Charamba’s full Twitter thread</a> below:
<blockquote>Zimbabwe voted nyet (Russian for no) against this omnibus General Assembly Resolution especially because of the part of it to do with the responsibility to protect, R2P.
Those with no sense of recent history or who mistakenly think western global imperial power is benign and benevolent, forget it was precisely this same clause – RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT – which was used to attack Gaddafi’s Libya, and which almost got invoked for use against Zimbabwe had it not been for the double veto by Russia and China!
And Libya tells the world how the West needs the clause to arrogate unto itself the RESPONSIBILITY TO INVADE FOR OIL, LAND, MINERALS and other INTERESTS using spurious grounds and securing a veneer of UN legality.
Today, Gaddafi is dead; Libya continues to die while the West retains the PREROGATIVE TO DO WAR WHILE STEALING LIBYAN OIL MIDST THAT WAR IT STARTED AND CONTINUES TO FUND AND FAN!
Often what is termed GENOCIDE is not that; rather, it neatly fits within Western extra-territorial goals. This is why what Israel does against the Palestinians falls neither under GENOCIDE or RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT, even though we all know it is GENOCIDAL DEFINITION ITSELF crying out for an American-led RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT!!!
Daily America, United Kingdom oppose even the mildest resolution in defence of the Palestinian people yet are keen to indict China on Chinese citizens of Moslem faith, and Venezuelans of Venezuela!
In the 19th Century, the mantra was encapsulated in the THREE Cs: CHRISTIANIZE, CIVILIZE and COLONIZE in that omnibus order.
We all know what happened before the Century of those laudable Cs ran out!! The RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT citizenry of ANY NATIONALITY is that of the NATION-STATE of that polity.
It is a moot point to ask the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA to accept a joint Russia-Chinese-led global intervention on its territory to exercise and enforce responsibility to protect BLACKS in AMERICA who are VICTIMS OF DAILY GENOCIDAL ATTACK.
Zimbabwe’s foreign policy options at United Nations are clear and grounded in its own history, experience, interests, principles and understanding of world affairs. Ndatenda!!!!</blockquote>
However, some observers said that the “No” vote by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime was a frantic attempt to avert a consequential reckoning with its past atrocities.
These atrocities include the killing of more than 20 000 people between 1983 and 1987, mostly unarmed civilians from the minority Ndebele ethnic group during Gukurahundi.

Mnangagwa Spokesperson Explains Why Zimbabwe Vetoed U.N. Resolution Against Genocide

Zimbabwe on Tuesday voted against a United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly measure that seeks to protect vulnerable populations against “genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.”
The resolution was adopted with 115 countries including neighbouring South Africa and Botswana voting in favour.
Fifteen (15) mostly rogue states that are notorious for some of the worst human rights violations – among them, North Korea, Russia, China, Burundi, and Eritrea – voted against the resolution.
The passage of the resolution puts the subject permanently on the UN agenda with the secretary-general now required “to report annually to the General Assembly on the responsibility to protect and the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.” The U.N. said:
<blockquote>In far too many situations around the world, civilian populations are experiencing indiscriminate attacks on schools and medical facilities, widespread rape and sexual violence perpetrated as a weapon of war, disproportionate and deadly force being used against peaceful protesters, and institutionalized persecution of minority groups.</blockquote>
Political analysts say it is not surprising that President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime voted against the resolution because the Zimbabwean government is guilty of past atrocities against its own people.
These include the killing of more than 20 000 people between 1983 and 1987, mostly unarmed civilians from the minority Ndebele ethnic group during Gukurahundi.
Mnangagwa and the late Robert Mugabe, who was president at the time, are some of the key ZANU PF culprits accused of orchestrating the massacres in the Midlands and Matabeleland provinces.
They are also accused of unleashing a vicious cycle of recurring political violence that has killed thousands of mainly opposition MDC supporters during election campaigns from the early 2000s.
Harare lawyer and opposition politician Tenda Biti told Zimlive that by rejecting U.N. measures against genocide, Mnangagwa has made himself a national embarrassment. Said Biti:
<blockquote>Once a genocidaire [someone guilty of genocide] always a genocidaire. Why would a right-thinking person and right-thinking country reject a convention against genocide, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes? Emmerson is an absolute national embarrassment. Resist dictatorship.</blockquote>
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.zimlive.com/2021/05/20/zimbabwe-joins-u-n-wall-of-shame-as-it-votes-against-resolution-to-stop-genocide/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Zimlive</a></h4>

Zimbabwe Votes Against U.N. Measures To Stop Genocide

President Emmerson Mnangagwa says Zimbabweans should freely discuss and chart the way forward on the Gukurahundi massacres that occurred a few years after independence from the British in 1980.
Thousands of civilians mostly in the Matebeleland and Midlands Provinces were killed by the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) between 1982 and 1987.
The army had been deployed to the country’s southern region to hunt down a few hundred renegade former freedom fighters who had gone rogue after independence.
In his Independence speech to be aired this Saturday on ZBCtv, President Mnangagwa urged those who were affected by Gukurahundi to come forward and contribute to the “discussion”. He said:
<blockquote>In my view, it is not useful to avoid an issue that affects us as a nation. It is better we discuss the issue and find a lasting solution. In future what is not good for our country can be avoided.
Everybody affected has an opportunity to come forward so that we can discuss it together. We can chart the way forward.</blockquote>
The late former president, Robert Mugabe described the disturbances as “a moment of madness”.
The massacres ended when the country’s main opposition party at the time, ZAPU, was swallowed by the ruling ZANU PF in an agreement dubbed the Unity Accord signed on 22 December 1987.

ED: Let Us Freely Discuss Gukurahundi

In an exclusive interview with the Daily News MDC Alliance Vice President, <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Tendai_Biti">Tendai Biti</a> said it is clear powerful politicians are behind<a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/MaShurugwi"> Mashurugwi</a> and he felt that the infamous gangs were being prepared to carry out a fresh genocide.
Biti also said an independent international judiciary commissioner is supposed to be set up to investigate the machete-wielding gangs that are terrorising citizens in many parts of the country.
Said Biti:
<blockquote>It is also clear that they are controlled by powerful people and the nation needs to understand more beyond the fact that they started in Kwekwe. We thus need to know and understand the connections they have with political parties, as well as who the owners of the mines that are at the centre of the wars are
The machete gangs’ agenda must also be established because some of us have a feeling that they are being prepared for a massive fresh <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/Gukurahundi">Gukurahundi.</a> This is how genocide was carried out in Rwanda in 1994, starting with the Hutus of the Interahamwe.
More people have been killed by the gangsters than those killed on August 1, 2018. They are so brazen and one gets a feeling that they must be operating with the backing of a very big political office. I mean, who can do what these people are doing, including killing a police officer? That doesn’t happen in Zimbabwe</blockquote>
Mashurugwi have headlines for weeks mostly for robbing an<a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/01/10/mashurugwi-attacks-a-family-in-chegutu-kill-2-r_pe-and-hack-3/">d killing people in areas they operate from</a>.
More: <a href="https://www.dailynews.co.zw/articles/2020/01/12/machete-killers-have-blessings-of-politicians">Daily News </a>

I have A feeling Mashurugwi Are Being Prepared For A Fresh Gukurahundi - Biti

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