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Political parties, mostly from matabeleland, have formed an alliance to intensify their call for transparency in the gukurahundi hearings, questioning the government’s commitment to uncovering the truth about the historical atrocities.The demand comes amid concerns over lack of openness and accountability in the process, with critics accusing the government of insincerity and attempting to whitewash the past; hence, the political parties formed an alliance to confront the government.The call was made by gukurahundi alliance spokesperson mudenda chilumbo during press briefing in bulawayo last week.“for the record, we have no intention to thwart a genuine, inclusive and transparent process to bring finality to gukurahundi, but for this government-initiated public outreach programme as led by chiefs, it is far from being a genuine programme.
We are not about to sanitise or be complicity in an unashamedly dishonest and grossly flawed process,” he said.Chilumbo said they strongly condemned the process and its pre-determined outcome.“we urge the government to set up a commission led by international persons to be responsible for overseeing the process so that it can be fair to both sides,” he said.Chilumbo said it was not correct to involve chiefs in conducting hearings on crimes against humanity committed in a military context.
