Retributive
justice must be the result of an appropriate national healing process in
Zimbabwe, Solusi students said.
During
a public lecture organized by the NYDT on the topic: Confronting a culture of
violence: challenges opportunities and gaps in the national healing process in Zimbabwe.,
students at Solusi University argued that any meaningful National healing
process must have both retributive and restorative justice as its ultimate
goal.
“A
simple apology will not bring back the skilled labour that was killed during
the Gukurahundi Massacres,” said one of the students.
Young
people stated that there is need to full calculate the economic cost of the
Gukurahundi genocide and use that as a starting point for national healing in Zimbabwe.
They argued further that Gukurahundi marked the beginning of the marginalization
of Matabeleland which has lasted since then .
