New Documents Claim to Prove Mugabe Ordered Gukurahundi Killings

According to the Guardian, newly released papers indicate that former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe, was the main forece behinef well-planned and systematically executed mass killings in the 1980s. The Guardian says the wide-ranging reports include diplomatic correspondence, intelligence assessments and raw intelligence from spies recruited from within the Zimbabwean government. They reportedly show that Mugabe was behind a campaign of terror begun in 1983 against a tribal group in western Zimbabwe. The so-called Gukurahundi massacres remain the darkest period in the country’s post-independence history, when more than 20,000 civilians were killed by Robert Mugabe’s feared Fifth Brigade.