"When considering the question should we remember? it is very important to firstly ask, has any victim forgotten? Could they ever forget? Secondly we should ask, who wants to forget? Who benefits when the atrocities stay silent in the past?"
(Roberto Cabrera - Guatemalan human rights activist)
In this section, we remember those who perished in the Gukurahundi genocide.
Siyabakhumbula/We Remember Them is about the memory of a friend, relative, parent, brother or sister who died in the hands of the Fifth Brigade. To set the ball rolling, we start by remembering the “Silobela 200”.
In early 1985, 200 men from Silobela in the Midlands province disappeared from their homes in the space of a few weeks. The government explanation was that the men had slipped across the border to join “dissidents”. Yet when the Unity Accord was signed in 1987 and the “dissidents” amnestied, none of the “Silobela 200” returned home.
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