HARARE - Zimrights is next week going to confront co-chairpersons of the Organ on National Healing and Reconciliation and challenge them to engage the grass roots so that political violence is curtailed.In an interview at the launch of a documentary titled Voices for healing, that shows short comings of the national healing programme in Harare last week, Zimrights information officer, Cynthia Manjoro, said it was disappointing to note that rural people was not aware of the existence of the National Healing Organ.
We are next week going to engage all the three co-chairpersons of the organ and show them the documentary. We want them to see and hear for themselves what the people from the grass roots are saying and request for their comments, she said.
The documentary shows victims of political violence back dating from the early 1980s during the Gukurahundi where thousands of the Ndebele tribe were massacred by the Robert Mugabe led Zanu( PF) party.
It also shows victims of the 2005 operation Murambatsvina who are demanding compensation from the government.
The documentary urges chairpersons of the National Healing organ to visit their areas and tell perpetrators of political violence to ask for forgiveness to those whom they erred to.
Since its inception a year ago, the organ on National Healing has not done any tangible action to heal the nation. The organ, which is being co-chaired by Vice President John Nkomo (ZANU-PF), Sekai Holland (MDC-T) and Gibson Sibanda (MDC-M) has been condemned by the nation for failing to deliver.
Home Affairs Co-Minister Giles Mutsekwa said political violence still existed because of the ineffectiveness of the National Healing organ.
The hope was that this organ was going to be effective and useful and going to bring societies together and I think it is everybodys experience at the moment that it has not achieved as much as we would have wanted it to do, said Mutsekwa in an interview.
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