Own Correspondent|Police in Bulawayo on Sunday morning blocked Gukurahundi Commemoration organisers from marching with an empty coffin through the streets of Bulawayo.

The march was in remembrance of thousands of innocent people who were butchered by the ZANU PF organised Gukurahundi soldiers in the early eighties.

Coordinated by Mthwakazi linked Ibhetshu Likazulu, the group all dressed in black wanted to make a mock funeral profession from the Joshua Nkomo Statue in the city centre to Stanley Hall in Makokoba before police pounced on them to stop the procession.

Ibhetshu Likazulu organises Gukurahundi Commemorations on Unity Day every year as they consider the day to be the day when Gukurahundi ended.

Over twenty thousand people were killed by a Perence Shiri led battalion of soldiers between 1983 and 1987 in the Matabeleland and Midlands provinces.

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