Statement on International Day for Victims of Enforced Disappearances
TODAY, WE JOIN THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY IN OBSERVING THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OFTHE VICTIMS OF ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES—A DAY THAT RESONATES DEEPLY WITHTHE HISTORY AND ONGOING STRUGGLES IN ZIMBABWE. ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCESHAVE BEEN A BRUTAL TOOL OF REPRESSION IN OUR COUNTRY FOR DECADES.
From the colonial era to the dark days of the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres, where thousands disappeared, to recent cases like that of Itai Dzamara, who was enforcibly disappeared in 2015 and to this day remains unaccounted for.
During election campaigns and other politically sensitive periods, human rights and political activists have been subjected to enforced disappearances.
