Zimbabwe to exhume and rebury thousands

Zimbabwe’s government has promised to exhume and rebury the bodies of thousands of people killed during a 1980s military campaign aimed at crushing dissidents, according to state media.

The country’s Herald newspaper cited the secretary in the justice ministry Virginia Mabhiza as calling the reburials part of measures supported by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to bring closure to the killings between 1983 and 1987.

She did not say when they will start. Mr Mnangagwa was state security minister and enforcer for thenleader Robert Mugabe at the time, publicly supporting the campaign.

Like Mr Mugabe, he has refused to apologise for his alleged role but recently said people should be free to talk about the killings.