Zimbabwe: Anti-Riot Police Block Bulawayo Gukurahundi March

22 January 2019

Anti-riot police in Bulawayo Monday blocked dozens of survivors of the 1980s Matebeleland and Midlands Gukurahundi massacres from presenting their court petition calling on authorities to open an inquest into the army slaughter of an estimated 20 000 civilians.

The victims, who had planned to march from the City Hall to the High Court, failed to do so after anti-riot and plainclothes police details besieged the venue.

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