Terrence Mawawa|MDC deputy national chairperson Tendai Biti has said the perpetrators of Gukurahundi atrocities are currently occupying influential positions in government.

Testifying before the Commission of Inquiry in the capital today Biti said: “We have never experienced peace in the country.

Let me say at independence the government inherited a colonial legacy and state operations were militarised.”

“The state sponsored the orgy of violence against the so called ” dissidents ” – I am sorry to use such a term- my sincere apology,”added Biti.