A spade is a spade is a spade is a spade. Let there be no doubt: Morgan Tsvangirai and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) are trying to make peace with murderers. They may, yet, succeed mainly because history is on their side. Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF have made a living for three decades by murdering innocent people, sometimes on a genocidal scale.
Among some plateau Bantu tribes, such as the Mashona, murder is a serious matter for which full compensation is required. The murderer and the survivors of an innocent victim will sit down and talk, talk, talk until they reach an appropriate compensation agreement. It is believed, rightly or wrongly, that failure to pay will result in massive vengeance by the spirit of the deceased.
Now, since I do not think that the dead know that they are dead, I suggest that it is up to the surviving victims to seek and obtain justice. ZANU-PF will try to pretend that nothing has happened that needs to be addressed in a more comprehensive manner than declaring a few days of national healing. One gets the impression that the government is trying to pull wool over the people's eyes using an empty so-called national healing process. Will the victims of Mugabe's crimes be lulled to sleep like babies or will they demand more substantial justice for the perpetrators of a murderous purge lasting thirty years?
Zimbabweans should demand justice for Gift Tandare, Tichaona Chiminya, Talent Mabika and countless known and unknown victims of Mugabe's murderous venture.
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