Biti Fearful Of Rwandan-style Genocide In Zimbabwe
The MDC deputy national chairman Tendai Biti warned that Zimbabwe could descend into anarchy as happened in Rwanda in 1994.
The Rwandan genocide claimed over 800 000 lives in just 100 days when the majority Hutu engaged in an orgy of violence against the minority Tutsi.
While speaking during a panel discussion at the 6th CEO Africa Round Table underway in Victoria Falls on Wednesday, Biti said:
We have to craft an agenda of nation-building. We have a country but no nation, and the level of toxicity is equal to Rwanda in January 1994. I say January because in April there was genocide and we are likely moving in that direction.
We can’t be a country that beats up its own people, raping women and shutting down the internet. I am not proud to be Zimbabwean after these events that were published in the Amnesty International report.
As for proposed solutions, I agree with the need for dialogue, but it should be genuine and underwritten by the international community. We need to end state capture and demilitarize our streets.
As a constitutional lawyer, my opinion is that we gave too much power to the executive president in Section 5 of the Constitutional amendment.
