1/14 Once again Mnangagwa is in Bulawayo today, with his security boys Owen "Machete" Mudha Ncube & Kazembe Kazembe, in another Virginia Mabiza facilitated abuse of the @NPRCZim & Matabeleland traditional chiefs to cleanse himself of #gukurahundi blood!
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2/14 Following the publication of his biography, littered with lies by Eddie Cross that he only played a peripheral role in the #gukurahundi genocide, Mnangagwa hopes the Cross book will whitewash his murderous gukurahundi past; before the @NPRCZim comes to an end in 23 months!
3/14 It's a cruel lie & a deepening of his genocidal complicity in gukurahundi atrocities to say, as does Eddie Cross in a book which been taken off the shelves in Zim for security reasons, that Mnangagwa played a minor role in the framing & execution of the gukurahundi genocide!
4/14 Since gukurahundi is neither openly nor seriously discussed in Zimbabwe; many are not aware that the #gukurahundi atrocities were classified as a GENOCIDE by @genocide_watch in 2010. If not minor, what was Mnangagwa's role in the gukurahundi GENOCIDE?
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5/14 While there are now many source materials on #gukurahundi genocidal roles roles played by Mnangagwa & all the others, a usefully comprehensive & detailed reference is @stu_doran's 842-page book, KINGDOM, POWER GLORY: Mugabe, Zanu & Supremacy 1960 - 1987, published in 2017!
6/14 On p. 440 @stu_doran has this shocker:
"...They (Ndebeles) think they have the divine right to rule the country and resent being ruled by a predominantly Shona party; they say only Ndebele should rule Ndebele..." Mugabe, Dec 82
This was the GENOCIDAL backdrop for 5 Brigade!
7/14 As revealed by @stu_doran in his 2017 book & corroborated by others, the Zanu Central Committee made a genocidal resolution in Dec 1982 "TO MASSACRE THE NDEBELES". The day after Mnangagwa & others went to Byo to pave way for deployment of 5 Brigade in Tsholotsho in Jan 1983!
8/14 People should read @stu_doran's meticulously detailed & well documented 842-page book on their own. It's a must read. Notably as revealed on pp. 332-33, when it came to gukurahundi, as CIO minister & chair of JOC Mnangagwa who carried an AK47, defined himself as a "SOLDIER"!
9/14 Unknown to traditional & community leaders meeting him in Bulawayo today, is that it is Mnangagwa the self declared soldier, CIO minister & JOC chair who personally gave the order to arrest & assassinate Joshua Nkomo in 1983; who survived by escaping to London via Botswana!
10/14 Although he addressed press conferences & public meetings in the #gukurahundi years as a soldier; as per the new line in his biography by Eddie Cross, Mnangagwa later claimed he did not know the number of people he & his fellow soldiers murdered in the gukurahundi genocide!
11/14 Kevin Woods, who led CIO in MatNorth under Mnangagwa the soldier & who regularly briefed CIO head office & Mugabe, put the #gukurahundi genocidal murder toll at 18,000 and Dan Stannard, Mnangagwa's CIO mastermind put it at 50,000; in a detail accessed by @stu_doran in 2015!
12/14 Eddie Cross claims Mnangagwa played a minor role in the #gukurahundi atrocities; but here's Emmerson in April 1983 getting off a helicopter in a blue t/shirt carrying a SCEPTRE, at a MatNorth rally where he personally paraded alleged dissidents before they were disappeared!
13/14 This photo collage speaks for itself about Mnangagwa PERSONALLY dispensing extrajudicial barbarism against alleged dissidents, in April 1983 at a mass rally in MatNorth; three months after 5 Brigade had been deployed in Tsholotsho; where it was committing untold atrocities!
14/14 TAKE ANOTHER look at these verifiable pictures of Mnangagwa, with his SCEPTRE in hand, PERSONALLY parading alleged dissidents, not found guilty of any crime by any court of law; who were tortured and disappeared. WHERE ARE THEY? Mnangagwa must account for these Zimbabweans!
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