Ncube announced on his Twitter wall that the MDC Youth Policy would be launched on September 3. Among other things, he said, the policy would propose the establishment of “an all stakeholder Truth and Reconciliation Commission to analyse cases of human rights abuse against youths between 1980 and 2003”.
It does not say what would happen to abuses that happened after 2003.
The abuses to be investigated by the proposed truth commission would Include the Gukurahundi massacre in the 1980s when President Robert Mugabe unleashed the security forces on innocent civilians in Matabeleland and Midland provinces.
After independence, an estimated 10,000 youths lost their lives in Mugabe’s brutal repression against his opposition Zapu in Matabeleland.
They were among more than 20 000 civilians killed by the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade.
The MDC policy also proposes the creation of youth service centres in all provinces “to look after the socio-cultural demands of young people” and government subsidies on health delivery in public and municipal hospitals.
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