Matabele Massacre

Some murders matter more than others. That is why there was an enormous Main Steam Media fuss about Stephen Lawrence, a black alleged to have been killed by young Englishmen. If he had been English rather than vice versa the media would have lost interest very fast. It would have been reported barely, if at all. The same applies to Massacres. It all depends on Who, whom? That was what Lenin was prone to say. Who is doing what to whom? Justice, fair play etcetera do not come into it.

All of this applies even more to Massacres which is why this one does not get a Wikipedia entry. Thirty thousand Matabele blacks were murdered by Shona tribesmen at the behest of Marxist mass murderer, Mugabe who is also Shona. Did the BBC tell you that Mugabe was  a Marxist? The  BBC is a propaganda machine with an agenda. The truth comes down the line. But for some reason the American Public Broadcasting Service did let the cat out of the bag. Perhaps their Marxists have a different agenda. See for yourself at Zimbabwe - Shadows and Lies. Rather more honest commentary is at Mugabe Is A Marxist With A Mission.

Of course the Beeb has a much more relaxed view of  a 'Grand Old Man' of African politics. It contrasts with their deep hatred of Ian Smith, who was the prime minister of Rhodesia. He made a halfway decent job of running the place but then he was a Brit by descent so the BBC abused him all the way to the grave. 

Matabele Massacre Condemned
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Harare – A top official of President Robert Mugabe’s party has issued an unprecedented condemnation of the massacres of up to 20 000 civilians of Zimbabwe’s minority Ndebele people three decades ago. Jonathan Moyo, a member of the powerful politburo of the ZanuPF party that came to power in 1980, was quoted in the party-controlled Sunday Mail newspaper saying that the massacres were "a dark point in our history". The comment was seen as a sign of deepening strife within the formerly monolithic ruling party.

The killings were carried out by Mugabe’s security forces during a low-level insurgency during the early 1980s in the western province of Matabeleland, home of the Ndebele-speaking tribe. The government’s reaction was "outrageously disproportionate" to the threat, Moyo said, although he stopped short of calling for an investigation. There have been no reparations made to families of the victims and no apologies.........

 Mugabe loyalists demand he should be "president for life," but a large younger group – with Moyo as apparent spokesperson – insist that he will be too frail to undertake an election campaign.

Mugabe...... won more votes than Mugabe in the last election earlier that year, but Mugabe effectively seized power after a national campaign of murder and torture targeting Tsvangirai’s supporters.
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You might get the impression from Western reportage that it is about political parties. In fact it is about tribes. Admitting the truth would hinder BBC propaganda complaining about our Racism

 

Sokwanele Reports 7 Thousand Murders
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To stem an insurrection in its southern province, Zimbabwe's post-independence government massacred an estimated 7,000 civilians between 1980 and 1988. The Catholic Church has compiled a report titled, Breaking the Silence - Building True Peace based on the testimonies of 1,000 witnesses.............

As if to confirm its notoriety, the Fifth Brigade - a North Korea-trained unit - soon got bored with merely interrogating its captives on the whereabouts of the armed rebels who were fighting President Robert Mugabe's government..............

But President Robert Mugabe has refused to give an apology for the massacres saying that it "it is not unusual for people to die in a war situation." He has even refused to entertain suggestions that the victims' surviving relatives must be compensated. The President contends that the legitimate government of Zimbabwe had a right to use any method to stem the tide of insurrection.........

Conservative members of his government point out that the Ndebele, Zimbabwe's minority tribe that was deeply opposed to the Mugabe presidency turned down the offer of peace at independence in 1980...............

Then in August 1981, 106 instructors arrived from communist North Korea and began training what was to be known as Fifth Brigade or Gukurahundi - Shona for "the rain which washes away the chaff before the spring rain". The Brigade was made up of Shona-speaking recruits totally sympathetic to the Mugabe regime The Shona tribe constitutes more that 80% of the Zimbabwean population. The insurrection in the south was borne out of a feeling common among the Ndebeles that the Mugabe government was out to finish them. President Mugabe is Shona...................

The CCJP was also vocal against the excesses of former white supremacist Ian Smith. It published a report on Civil War in Rhodesia and Mugabe cannot therefore accuse it of being one-sided.
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This report is honest about the tribal nature of these massacres but hostile to Sir Ian Smith alleging his excesses. Naturally they are not specified. That would be telling lies or reciting trivia that make Mugabe look even worse. The claim of 5, 000 to 7,000 deaths contrasts with the Wiki's story of 20,000 Matabele minimum. See the next one.

 

Zimbabwe ex Wikipedia
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Opposition to what was perceived as a Shona takeover immediately erupted around Matabeleland. In November 1980 Enos Nkala made some inflammatory remarks directed at Mugabe's party during a rally near Bulawayo. This, unfortunately, was later deemed to have caused the first Entumbane uprising, which resulted in clashes between Nkomo and Mugabe supporters.[31]

In February 1981, there was a second uprising, which swiftly spread to Glenville and also to Connemara in the Midlands. Former Rhodesian security units were called in to stop the bloodletting, which they were able to do only after three hundred lives were lost.

The Matabele unrest led to what has become known as 'Gukurahundi' (Shona: "the early rain which washes away the chaff before the spring rains"[32]) or the Matabeleland Massacres, which lasted from 1982 until 1985. Mugabe ordered his North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade to occupy Matabeleland, crushing any resistance to his rule. It has been estimated that at least 20,000 Matabele were murdered and tens of thousands of others were tortured in military internment camps.[33] [ broken link but see  Breaking The Silence ] The slaughter only ended after Nkomo and Mugabe reached a unity agreement in 1988 that merged their respective parties, creating the Zimbabwe African Union-Patriotic Front.
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|Breaking the Silence : Building True Peace. – Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe, p. 157 Breaking The Silence

 

Matabeleland Report.txt

 

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