Tag Archives: Zimbabwe

Calls for Gukurahundi Justice

By Sonja Dechian | Published: November 17, 2011

Hundreds of Zimbabwean exiles gathered in South Africa this week to launch a new lobby group that will campaign for the trial of perpetrators of the Gukurahundi massacres

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Gukurahundi Mass Grave Found

By Ana L Galvez | Published: October 25, 2011

According to this article in the Daily News, published in Harare, a mass grave of nearly 60 bodies was discovered in a high school’s football grounds at Lupane, Zimbabwe, last week. The remains are thought to belong to victims of the 1980s Gukurahundi killings, in which an estimated 20,000 people, many of them civilians, died. [...]

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Tag Archives: Zimbabwe

Calls for Gukurahundi Justice

Gukurahundi Mass Grave Found

On the News Blog:

La dernière catastrophe: l’histoire, le présent, le contemporain

Memory, Politics and Identity: Haunted by History

Commemorating Hell: The Public Memory of Mittelbau-Dora