Zanu-PF MPs storm out parliament in Gukurahundi debate
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| ZANU PF MPs stormed out of parliament on Tuesday after an MP said the 1980s Gukurahundi genocide in the Matabeleland region should be investigated along with the June 2008 election violence. Bulawayo East MP Thabitha Khumalo (MDC-T) rose to second a motion by her party’s chief whip Innocent Gonese, calling for the establishment of a cross-party committee to investigate violence that marred the presidential election run-off. The Mdc said over a 100 of its supporters were abducted and killed by alleged militants from President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party. The party cited violence as the major reason for withdrawing its candidate Morgan Tsvangirai from the run-off which Mugabe claimed with a landslide. Khumalo suggested the committee could go a step further and examine Mugabe’s deployment of an especially trained army unit to Matabeleland soon after independence. Rights groups say over 20,000 people, mainly supporters of his chief rival Joshua Nkomo, were killed and thousands more driven away from their homes. That sparked an angry protest from Zanu PF chief whip Joram Gumbo who told parliament: “It is regrettable that we are discussing the issue of what happened in 2008 today. “You (Speaker, Lovemore Moyo) as our leader you said history can be used. I was of the opinion that if we start narrating our history from 1896 during the Shona-Ndebele war and those that followed, we cannot live in harmony.” Gumbo further protested against what he saw as Speaker Lovemore Moyo’s bias towards his MDC-T party before urging Zanu PF MPs to walk. Gonese said the establishment of a probe committee, which was opposed by Zanu PF... ... |
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