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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy leader, Tendai Biti, warned Tuesday that Zimbabwe could easily be engulfed in a deadly conflict on the scale of Rwanda\u2019s 1994 Genocide which claimed more than 900 000 lives.<\/p>\n

Speaking during a debate on a report by Parliament\u2019s Media Committee on its community radio legislation benchmarking visit to Kenya, the former Minister of Finance and Economic Development during the Government of National Unity (GNU) said:<\/p>\n

Politics, in Zimbabwe, is suffocating because it is politics of intolerance, durawalls and division.<\/p>\n

Where you have such corrosive politics Mr. Speaker Sir, it is difficult to come up with a common division. It is politics of hatred, exclusion, intolerance, and regrettably Hon. Speaker Sir, 42 years after Independence, that politics is entrenched.<\/p>\n

If you look at the hatred on social media Mr. Speaker Sir, if you look at some of the things that are said in this Parliament \u2013 the language of hatred is so entrenched.<\/p>\n

We are not very far from Rwanda in 1994. Mr. Speaker Sir, you know what happened in Rwanda in 1994.<\/p>\n

Biti said while Kenyans had their divisions, they had unity of purpose and their politics transcend political party boundaries as national goals take precedence over party goals NewZimbabwe\u2019com reports.<\/p>\n

Some analysts say the Unity Accord of 1987 and the GNU of 2009 were the closest incidences of when Zimbabwe attempted to prioritise national goals at the expense of party goals.<\/p>\n

Some, however, describe the incidents as marriages of convenience necessitated by the ruling ZANU PF\u2019s politics of intolerance.<\/p>\n

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