A group of Zipra veterans based in Harare on Saturday said they were sending a delegation to assess the situation where mainly ex-Zanla people have already exhumed 640 bodies.
War veterans from the two liberation movements split into two factions after former Zipra intelligence supremo Dumiso Dabengwa left Zanu PF to revive Zapu in 2009.
The Zipra war veterans said they were not consulted before the controversial exhumations were conducted.
They said some of the remains could be of their fallen comrades and Zanu PF was trying to use them for political gain.
Zapu said Zanu PF could be trying to hide evidence of the Gukurahundi atrocities.
An estimated 20 000 supporters of the party led by the late Joshua Nkomo were killed soon after independence
Meanwhile, Matabeleland South police have denied claims by Mines and Mining Development minister Obert Mpofu that another mass grave had been discovered at Blanket Mine near Gwanda. Mpofu was quoted by the state media saying the grave could contain remains of people killed during the liberation war.
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“We have been to the mine and checked but we have not come across any mass grave,” police spokesman Sergeant Thabani Mkhwananzi said.
The mine’s general manager, Caxton Mangenzi, the general manager (GM) of Blanket Mine added: “There is nothing like that.
“None of our workers have come across the mass grave”
Bulawayo based activists said that government had now started reburying victims of the liberation war it must also start identifying mass graves of Gukurahundi victims.
“Whilst we appreciate the importance of the armed struggle we are perturbed by the fact that the government has deliberately and systematically ignored thousands of people who were buried in mass graves in Matabeleland and parts of the Midlands during the Gukurahundi massacres,” Dumisani Nkomo, the spokesperson of the Matabeleland Civil Society Consortium said in a statement prepared by the organisation on Friday.
