By Paul Nyathi|Police in Bulawayo have cordoned off Bulawayo Rainbow Hotel venue for the Kgalema Motlanthe led Commission of Inquiry into the killings that took place in Harare on the 1st of August.

The police reaction comes in the wake of threats to disrupt the hearings by Matabeleland activists who have questioned why the commission comes to Bulawayo when the killings happened in Harare.

The activists claim that the move is a waste of tax payers’ money.

The activists have also questioned why President Emmerson Mnangagwa set up a commission to investigate the six murders in Harare but ignoring the over 20 000 who were killed by the Gukurahundi atrocities of the early eighties.

The activists have threatened to cause mayhem at the hearings and not allow them to continue unless they answer the Gukurahundi questions.

ZimEye.com is at the venue and will provide live coverage of the hearings as soon as they begin.