Mnangagwa says government can help rebury victims of Gukurahundi

Q & A:

+HON. MISIHAIRABWI-MUSHONGA: Thank you Mr. Speaker.  My question is directed to the Hon. Vice President, Hon. Mnangagwa.  How is the Government handling the issue of deceased people especially those who died during the Gukurahundi period to have proper reburials like what we have seen happening here in Mashonaland, they were reburied properly.  I have noticed that there are people who are trying to rebury those people properly and have a proper burial place for them.   If that is what the villagers want to do, they want to find out from the Government how they can go about exhuming the bodies and reburying those people properly.

*THE VICE PRESIDENT AND MINISTER OF JUSTICE, LEGAL AND PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS (HON. MNANGAGWA):  I want to thank the Hon. Member for her question that is in connection with those that are able to rebury those that were not properly buried.  It could be that they know that here in Mashonaland, the war veterans are going around the country looking for their fellow veterans who were not properly buried and reburying them.  We cannot order these war veterans to do that but this can be done by the Ministry of Home Affairs. They have a department that could deal with that.  If there are remains that need to be reburied, that can be done by that Ministry.

+HON. MISIHAIRABWI-MUSHONGA:  I do not know whether you understood the question.  I said those who died during the Gukurahundi period.  There are a lot of people who were killed during the Gukurahundi period.  I am saying the villagers want the bodies to be exhumed and reburied properly, how can they go about it.

*HON. E. MNANGAGWA: If my niece was listening properly, I have said that all those whose remains have not been properly buried all over the country, all such matters should be referred to the Ministry of Home Affairs, they are the relevant authority that deal with such issues.  I thank you.

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