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London; 10/12/09

Zanu Pf attempts to muzzle Gukurahundi truth will not work.

Today is international Human Rights Day.  Mthwakazi Action Group on Genocide in Matabeleland and Midlands (MAGGEMM) joins the rest of the world in marking this important day, which this year is themed ‘Embrace Diversity, End Discrimination’.

Mthwakazi Action Group on Genocide in Matabeleland and Midlands (MAGGEMM) has welcomed Zimbabwean author and journalist Geoff Hill’s appointment onto the advisory council of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS).

Mthwakazi Action Group on Genocide in Matabeleland and Midlands (MAGGEMM) welcomes the attention currently being given to the Gukurahundi genocide by political parties and politicians in Zimbabwe.  We agree with any action which enhances MAGGEMM’s stated aim to promote open dialogue on Gukurahundi and also seeks to create an enabling environment in Zimbabwe for the truth about the massacres to be known.

In March and November 2003, the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe adjudicated over a case brought by the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and the Legal Resources Foundation against the President of Zimbabwe, who had refused to publish the reports of two public inquiries conducted in 1981 and 1984.

MAGGEMM today responded to a new report by Impunity Watch calling for the prosecution of Robert Mugabe and others for Gukurahundi and other human rights abuses in Zimbabwe.  The report titled “Seeking Justice for Zimbabwe” states that;