CIO and Zanu-PF sup****ters want to kill Bulawayo do***entary producer
The Zimbabwean
Saturday, 15 December 2007 11:07
By Nokhuthula Khumalo
The producer of a do***entary on Matabeleland 1980s army atrocities
Zenzele
Ndebele has resorted to hiding after notorious members of the Central
Intelligence Organization (CIO) and Zanu-PF sup****ters are threatening to
kill him.
Ndebele said he is in hiding after receiving threats from unknown people
he
suspects could be state secret agents and Zanu-PF sup****ters
The 25-minute do***entary titled "Gukurahundi: A Moment of Madness"
narrates events during an army crackdown known as Gukurahundi that was
carried out by the army's notorious 5th Brigade ostensibly to rid the
southern Matabeleland and Midlands regions of armed dissidents opposed to
President Robert Mugabe's rule.
An estimated 20 000 innocent civilians, almost all of them belonging to
the
minority Ndebele tribe, died in the crackdown that is one of the darkest
periods in Zimbabwe's post-colonial history.
Producer, Zenzele Ndebele told ZimOnline he fled his home after receiving
calls from unknown people who demanded to know why he produced the
do***entary.
"I no longer stay at home but at a place in one location in Bulawayo where
I
feel I am safe," Ndebele said by phone yesterday. "I have received threats
to arrest and force me to reveal the reasons behind the do***entary and
its
sponsors."
The Gukurahundi massacres remain a sensitive subject especially because
Mugabe's government has refused to apologise for the killings although the
Zimbabwean leader has called the crackdown a moment of madness.
