© Columbia University Press
Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe: A Report on the Disturbances in Matebeleland and the Midlands, 1980-1988
June, 2008
Paper, 448 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-70055-9
$37.50
"The courageous Zimbabwean authors of this report should be congratulated for producing an essential document of this little-known history of Zimbabwe." — Foreign Affaris
"This is a powerful book of testimony and truth about the first great tragedy of Zimbabwe's independence-though not the last. It is a moving work and one that will always speak to the legacy of Robert Mugabe." — Stephen Chan, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
"Between 1983 and 1987 a major tragedy, a monstrous human rights violation, occurred in Zimbabwe but passed almost unnoticed by the world. Its architect was lauded on the international stage and only those who suffered and those who cared knew of and recorded the events. A sample of these devastating testimonies is included in this book. " — Lord Luce, FCO minister at the Lancaster House negotiations for Zimbabwe's independence
"Gukurahundi graphically chronicles the tragic story of the suffering of the people of Matebeland during the Mugabe clampdown in the 1980s. It is painful to read and still resonates with all those who watch the devastation wreaked on his people by Mugabe today" — Glenys Kinnock, President of the African, Caribbean, Pacific, and European Union Joint Parliamentary Assembly
"When Hitler launched the invasion of Poland in August 1939, he asked the generals, 'who speaks today of the destruction of the Armenians?' Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe first brought the atrocities of the Gukuruhundi to international attention, and deserves to be recalled, as the people of Zimbabwe now suffer a slow motion genocide." — Lord Eric Avebury