Another commission to clean after Mugabe

Another commission to clean after Mugabe

SOON after independence, Robert Mugabe looked East to the Korean Peninsular for assistance with the establishment and commissioning of a gang of armed killers dubbed the Gukurahundi. With nefarious determination, the North Koreans came and within a record time, they had assembled, trained and passed out ruthless slayers of civilians on behalf of their principal customer, Robert Gabriel Mugabe.

Speaking after reviewing the pass-out parade for the Fifth Brigade, Mugabe should have had planned a big killing day for them already. No sooner had they finished training were they unleashed to cause mayhem in Matabeleland and parts of midlands provinces. The background of all this is that Mugabe was personally in charge of the Ministry of Defence.

There is no other way to describe the ruthlessness of the Fifth Brigade without being boringly repetitive. Literally, they came, they shot and they assumed they had conquered! Several areas in Matabeleland, namely Tsholotsho and Bhalagwe in Kezi became the Auschwitz of Zimbabwe in its war against its Jewish equivalent. The goons from the Fifth Brigade were so stupid that they would shoot their victims dead and ask the corpses a few questions later.

"The North Koreans came and within a record time, they had assembled, trained and passed out ruthless slayers of civilians on behalf of their principal customer, Robert Mugabe"

MASOLA WA DABUDABU

There were other areas where people were just shot, killed and buried in insulting shallow graves. Even to this day, their whereabouts remain unknown. I recall the shallow graves in Figtree! Three men who worked at the telephone exchange in Figtree were gunned down over petty work related issues. It is said that they were shot as they dug shallow pits, not knowingly that they were digging their own graves! The men had been sold out by their colleague. This aggrieved co-worker obviously had intimate political and ethnic connection with the perpetrators of the on-going mayhem.

When a lot had been said about the ruthless operation, Mugabe took to his devious nature again. He profusely professed ignorance on the nature of operations his god-sons were engaged in. In an assumed angelic fashion, he commissioned Justice Chihambakwe to look into the operations by the Fifth Brigade in parts of Midlands and Matabeleland Provinces. From the outside, this may seem noble for a statesman to do. From inside Zimbabwean politics, however, this was just a devilish move by Mugabe to absolve himself from the massacres he had personally sanctioned.

The known facts about Gukurahundi massacres still point an accusing finger at Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s wicked ambition and his declared rivalry and fear of Joshua Nkomo. He had to do everything humanly possible to cripple Joshua Nkomo’s support base. His failure to use humane methods to unseat Nkomo meant that he had to resort to the barbarism and callousness of the Fifth Brigade. It is an openly established fact that Mugabe was given regular up-dates by his commanders, including the dirty Mnangagwa and the Doctor Sydney ‘Josef Mengele’ Sekeramayi. It further remains proven that the head of the Gukurahundi at that time still remains one of Mugabe’s trusted lieutenants.

The apparent natural death of the term ‘Gukurahundi’ in the Shona language is an open pointer to the known shame the Fifth Brigade brought to the people.

Another known fact is that the state controlled media did its best in encouraging the slaughter of more people. It is in this regard that even people like Geof Nyarota, the Editor of the Chronicle newspaper then, wrote an editorial commentary suggesting that the Gukurahundi (not the army) be sent again to Matabeleland. Mugabe would not have been so stupid as not to know that the men he had sent to commit heinous acts against unarmed civilians were carrying out his orders to the book!

So, when the Chihambakwe Commission tabled its report, Mugabe was surprised to see that they had unearth most of what he thought was privy to him and his trusted lieutenants. He was so embarrassed that he could not bring the report to be published. To further protect his bloody image from further scrutiny, the Chihambabwe Report mysteriously disappeared from the State Archives. (It remains an open secret that Mnangagwa was the keeper of those archives for a long time).

Of late, there is a dirty operation that is going on in Zimbabwe. When it was begun, the herald newspaper actually tried to justify it by publishing a story about the removal of Gypsies in the United Kingdom. When the world started voicing its concerns on the unplanned destruction of people’s homes, Mugabe quickly seized the opportunity to absolve himself from any blame once more. In his usual satanic manner, he told the world that he did not know that his people were unleashing so much terror upon the people. In his typical fashion, he summoned one of his vice-presidents for clarification. Again, we are probably going to be gifted with another commission of enquiry to enquire on the manner people’s homes were destroyed. We are sure never to know the out-come of this enquiry though!

Somehow the ignorance Mugabe displays in such grave issues leaves us with so many questions on his mental state and capability to lead. It also makes us ask if he is the real power in Zimbabwe or there is some person or group of persons pulling the strings in a puppet show fashion. How can he order operations, see the devastation with his own eyes and later disassociate himself from his own creation?
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