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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim president Nelson Chamisa said that he will bring closure to the Gukurahundi issue once he is voted into office.<\/p>\n

Addressing party supporters at a campaign rally at Tsholotsho Business Centre on Monday ahead of the 26 March by-elections, Chamisa said the ruling ZANU PF party cannot resolve Gukurahundi since they were the perpetrators of the killings. He said:<\/p>\n

There is this issue of Gukurahundi. I told the late former President Robert Mugabe and the current ZANU PF leadership that you cannot sweep Gukurahundi under the carpet.<\/p>\n

This is an unresolved national question that you are unable to solve because you caused it. We can solve it.<\/p>\n

We want community leaders, local leaders and everyone to be part of the process of national healing, which does not start from the top, but from the bottom.<\/p>\n

We want to hear from you what you want to see in terms of compensation that must be given where it is due. Healing must be given where it\u2019s due.<\/p>\n

We are not doing this for retribution, we want to bring people together and that is how you heal a nation, blood speaks and if you don\u2019t make an effort to silence the blood, it will continue to speak.<\/p>\n

Gukurahundi killings reportedly claimed 20 000 civilian lives in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces between 1982 and 1987 after the government deployed the North Korea-trained Fifth Brigade to crush alleged \u201cdissidents\u201d.<\/p>\n

Tsholotsho is one of the districts in Matabeleland North province where some of the worst Gukurahundi atrocities were committed.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim president Nelson Chamisa said that he will bring closure to the Gukurahundi issue once he is voted into office. 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