At least two Bindura University of Science and Education (BUSE) students have been confirmed dead with sixteen more seriously injured after being assaulted by a group of the university security guards. The sad event happened on Friday 17th of September at the Bindura University of Science and Education graduation ceremony.

The gruesome killings took place after some university security details overzealously tried to bar a significant number of students from graduating due to failure to pay fully their tuition fees which to the majority is unreachably satanic and education denying. In a typical Batanai Hadzizi murder fashion, the security details with the help reinforcements of unknown assailants descended upon the unarmed students beating anyone within reach and it is from injuries of this brutality that the two students were killed and sixteen more injured.

This perfidious incident happened barely two weeks after Stan Mudenge the minister of Higher and Tertiary Education proclaimed that no student shall be barred from sitting for examinations, harassed or victimised for failing to pay fees. The 17th of September shall and is surely a sad day for the students of Zimbabwe which depicts government deceit and cruelty. However it must be kept in mind that this is not the first time Bindura University has witnessed such barbaric conduct by the security details. In 2006 police descended with the same vigour after an explosion at the faculty of commerce department and a nerve-racking group of AK47 wielding riot police took siege of the university campus.

The students whose name are yet to be released joins the family of student martyrs, the likes of Batanai Hadzizi who was murdered in cold blood by a group of overzealous rogue riot police officers in his room at the University of Zimbabwe during a demonstration on the eve of 9 April 2001.They equally join the nine students and professors executed on the 17th of November 1939 in Prague.

This is a sombre antihuman happening which should be castigated by all sound minded beings. It is an attempt to subvert all the gains of human progress.ZINASU joins the families of the lost comrades in mourning and calls for the rest of the country to join hands in condemning this vile act. It is our belief that barbarism can and shall not freely subjugate the right to life. We therefore call upon the Tsvangirai-Mugabe led government to establish an inquest into this horrendous event. We demand that justice be employed and those responsible be exposed and brought to book. Instead of following criminals to police cells, we invite Theresa Makone’s ministerial leadership in pursuit of justice. ZINASU further calls upon, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, in his capacity as the Chancellor of state universities, and Stanslius Mudenge, the minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, to recant this fees regime, as it is clearly unsustainable, and a superfluous assault on the right to education.

This is an attempt to decimate the students union, our struggle is on trial, but from these trials we must emerge stronger and even more resolute. Go well comrades, the road is mined but we shall continue matching ahead drawing strength for you never dead spirits and aspirations.

Struggle is our birthright.

Kudakwashe Chakabva

ZINASU National Spokesperson
+263 913 725 723

By Staff reporter and agencies