1/6 This documentation of the gukurahundi genocide is crucial @zenzele: going for specific cases; based on available and incontrovertible information, as in this 5 Brigade murder of Lieutenant Edias Ndhlovu, his wife and two others on account of being Ndebele in 1983 in Lupane!
https://twitter.com/zenzele/status/1470997519949828099
2/6 Lieutenant Ndhlovu, his wife & two others were murdered on 11 Feb 1983 & buried in a shallow roadside grave by four Five Brigaders: Corporals Charles Simango, Simon Chayana & George Chivayi and Private Samuel Gwatirera who saw their victims as "dissidents" for being Ndebele!
3/6 Corporal Chayana told a board of inquiry that they murdered Lieutenant Ndhlovu, his wife & two others in Lupane on 11 Feb 1983 on orders to "kill anybody whom we suspected to be dissidents"; the operational rule was that dissidents were Ndebele and Ndebeles were dissidents!
4/6 Inspector Samuel Ngwenya who led ZRP's investigation of the brutal murder of Lieutenant Ndhlovu, his & two others said 5 Brigade told him that "for purposes of the operations I was blind and I would be told when to look up". So he falsified the record to exonerate 5 Brigade!
5/6 While the official records of this case have reportedly been destroyed, itself a crime against humanity, damning and actionable information on the case is available in the @HeraldZimbabwe archives that are now impossible to destroy, as they are everywhere around the world!
6/6 The significance of the attachments in your tweet @zenzele is twofold: while @Zimpapers did not cover the gukurahundi genocide, they unwittingly covered the cover up and the 5 Brigaders who murdered Lieutenant Ndhlovu, his wife & two others on 11 Feb 1983 in Lupane are known!
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