MCP dodge victims of their atrocities demanding justice

March 6, 2019 Nyasa Times Reporter 78 Comments

Thousands of victims of violence and atrocities committed by Malawi Congress Party (MCP) during the one-party rule.are due to present a petition to Parliament demanding justice.

Chakwera greets Mama Kadzamira who was confidante of Kamuzu

In response, MCP has changed the launch of its manifesto away from Bingu International Conference Centre (BICC) which is close to the place where the victims will camp waiting for answers.

After submission of petition, victims plan to camp at the graveyard of former President Kamuzu Banda next to Parliament and the BICC where MCP would launch its elections manifesto.

The people, who have never been compensated, are demanding justice from Parliament and MCP to address them.

Haunted by fear of reparations, most of the victims also want an assurance that MCP would not repeat victimising more Malawians if they take over power again.

Millions of Malawians died and suffered for 30 years when MCP killed, tortured, dispossessed and banned innocent people from their own country. Unlucky souls were fed to crocodiles or dissolved in drums of acid so that you would completely disappear without a trace.

If you were a son or daughter of the state victim, you were not allowed to attend any school in Malawi unless you disguised yourself by changing your name.

The Ombudsman of Malawi has on record 22,000 living victims who are still demanding justice from their perpetrators.

MCP used  para-military wing  Malawi Young Pioneers  (MYP) and notorious  youth leagues to kill, torture and victimise innocent people.

Instead, the current MCP under the leadership of Lazarus Chakwera have been pushing Parliament for the compensation of the killers instead of pushing for the compensation of the victims themselves.

This policy position of Chakwera and the current  MCP has raised fears that the party does not care about Malawians they victimised. Some have raised fears that the MCP is unrepentant and would under Chakwera victimise more people if given power.

Analysts are wondering how the MCP manifesto will address the victims question.

Chakwera is on record to have asked for forgiveness for atrocities committeda t the height of the 31-year-old reign of MCP which was blighted by arbitrary detentions, killings, expulsions and disappearances of those opposed to founding president  Kamuzu Banda who is immortalised by the party as his face continue to appear on party cloth.

But Chancellor College-based analyst Edge Kanyongolo said the forgiveness must be preceded by “full confession.”

He said:  “People who suffered at the hands of MCP rule are willing to forgive, but those who victimised Malawians do not seem willing to confess all that they did during Kamuzu’s rule.”

 

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78 replies on “MCP dodge victims of their atrocities demanding justice”

  1. Sorry Lilian Kaunda. Your confiscated chicken hatched a tambala okhaokha. Therefore no multiplier effect.

  2. Ok That’s why is called MCP – MALAWI CROCODILE PARTY, Meaning Chipani cha a ng’ona

  3. Guys I Hate MCP inu ndikutitu I hate MCP ife nthawi ya MCP kusukulu timapita wopanda kabudula wakati kapena pati, Asikana ambiri anali kumalozelana ngati kabudula wa English khakhi amene timavala ku sukulu wabowona , chifukwa katundu akangoti ng’ali ng’ali gati mabo chifukwa cha nthawi yamavuto a Malawi Crocodile Party

  5. i hope dr chakwera and indeed mcp can repeat the same. however history is hunting mcp. 1994 we needed truth and reconcilation commission and it would have put this issue to rest.

  6. When Monkeys from michiru that raised havoc on the areas maize garden year out year in relocate to ndirande mountain,you don’t blame the mountain for the havoc you blame the monkeys. MCP under Kamuzu as a leader apologized for the bad things that were done while he was the head of state both shouldered blame even for the ones done without his knowledge but done in his name without his consent. To me that that was repentance and remorse at its best. The ones in the know of the methods and techniques used are no longer in MCP most are in DPP and very few in UDF maybe one or two in MCP but retired. Gentlemen if we are to move on as a country. Let the current government leaders preach equity with clean hands.

  7. Repent first Man of God. You know it better Man of God.
    When David Committed Adultery with Uriah’s wife, he repented, just as you are doing Man of God. God heard David’s repentance but the product of his sin, the resultant child, had to die. God has heard your request for forgiveness and I believe God has forgiven MCP but your MCP, Man of God, must die. The death of MCP, Man of God, is that the party will never win any election in Malawi.

  9. Kusowa mtengo ogwira uku DPP. Attrocities during one party era involved every Malawian. As such all parties will be affected.

  10. MCP Tambala Wakuda the owners of Red Soldiers (Agang’a) please let everyone keep quiet or else ng’ona will cherish you fresh. But guys inali nthawi yowawitsa !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! one can not easily forget!!!

  11. nyasI za MCP. Chipani cha matemberero. Temberero silimatha lokha popanda kulapa ana ang’on a inu. Simuzalamulilanso malawi munawonetsa nkhanza kwambiri mmanja mwanu muli magazi

  12. These people took my Chicken in 1978 and using a mulltiplier effect I should have had over 10million chickens by now and at 3,500 each MCP owes me MK35,000,000,000

  13. Mmmmm, definitely l would think twice before voting, bringing MCP back into government. I would also think twice leaving the looters, whose president is old and clueless. I would also think twice voting into government people like chilima and Dr Usi, but definitely cannot waste my vote by voting for small parties, helping the king to get drunk.

  14. After you’re done seeking justice for you people who have been sent by DPP government, we shall also want the same government to tell where our brothers Robert Chasowa, Issa Njaunju, Buleya Lule and all the people with albinism who have been abducted and brutally killed. We shall seek justice too

  19. Cheap cheap politics ever,you kno w who did that and you want Mcp to confess on their behalf

  20. MCP is a branded party and if u want justice to prevail them ask Che Ntaba Kukamphata, Che Dausi ku neno/mwanza, Che Mussa kuchiladzulu as these were operatives during mcp era

  21. It’s good this is happening when Dausi, Ntaba, Henery Mussa, Bakili Muluzi, Mwanavekha and many others are still alive and are ruling this country. It will be very easy to have answers. Those that are in MCP now were not part of the atrocities. No wonder DPP is still terorising malawians. It is the haven of people who marred MCP. Its good they are no longer MCP. I urge the victims to go ahead with their plans because they will be referred to right and living people, the likes of Dausi, Muluzi, Ntaba and many others in DPP and other parties.

  22. The whole nation is answerable to those atrocities – and the whole nation demands compasation _ who is going to compesate us ? Malawi government. Source of money. Ife tomwe. palibepo nkhani apa
    Kufuna kuphweketsa the killings that are happenning now
    Desparate DPP

  23. So government has done nothing all these years. At last its government to compensate. MCP may apologise but not compensate.

  26. Do you really know what a million is? Have you checked how the Barcelona Stadium Nou Camp looks with 100,000 people in it? These are absolute lies. Where were the people buried? Go and see how area 18 cemetry looks with less than 10,000. This is dpp cheap propaganda. We can see the graves of people whom Bingu killed on 20 July 2011. We know dpp is killing albinos for rituals. Bakili said Malawians easily forget things. This is it.

  27. Millions were killed? Someone is spending sleepless nights because they thought MCP was going to finish like curtains. Unfortunately for them the bad press by MBC and castigation by Politicians including APM who warned people in the north not to vote MCP has not yielded anything. MCP is still popular even among young people than those parties that were born prior to multiparty in 1994. This cheap politics will not get votes. People have already decided whom to vote for in May.

  28. Office of the ombudsman has 22,000 names of victims not yet compensated.that is the starting point..bring to book the perpetrators and the victims..how ever MCP is accountable because it presided over the same atrocities during their rule.

  29. My family like many others went through unspeakable horror under MCP government, I have made it my life long goal to decampaign MCP for the life long trauma that we are going through

  31. My Dad was abducted in the middle of the night on 6 th March 1988 by MYP a paramilitary wing of the ruthless MCP, that was the last time I saw him alive ……..he died in prison

  32. Yes! I never got to know my Grandfather, he was brutally murdered by MCP lead government, and my Uncle was thrown in Prison for 10 years for speaking up against the atrocities committed by MCP

  34. MYP was a government entity on the government payroll. Don’t you still understand this?
    Of course we understand what you (the reporter ) are trying to do but news outlets should be the first to be careful with facts. I thought Nyasatimes was not a tabloid.
    Make it an outlet yoti ogwira ntchito anu asamachite manyazi kuikaka their Association with you pa CV

  36. DPP njenjenje kunjenjemera. A sane person asks himself why now afer 25 or so. This will make MCP popular than before.

  39. MCP, that blood on your hands is failing to get washed away. Why did you have to kill and maim so many during your 31 years in power? Is it something in your DNA?

  42. You need people like Nicholas Dausi, Henry Mussa to do that. MCP is a party but people were victimised by government. The current government must compensate all who were victimised.

  43. Akafunse adausi ndi a Ntaba zimenezi simapanga ndi MCP koma anthu amenewa, ndiye anthu asakunamizeni ndipo anthu simungawapusitsenso lero, amalawi adapenya or mutachita motani

    1. they were doing that on behalf of a duly registered entity in this case MCP.Individually are not personally responsible for all dirty done. Funny enough accolades are sung for MCP developments but you won’t want to hear of any atrocities committed. Munya akanganya inu

  44. Cheap politics! raw politics! pagan politics! . The people who committed the so called atrocities are no longer in New MCP. They hid in DPP – Dr. Ntaba, Dausi, expelled District Chairmen who are now in UTM, and in UDF Bakili Muluzi. Kamuzu personally apologized and MYP were compensated. So whats more?

    1. You are so wrong! Can you check out Dausi’s background before you utter your nyusensi! He was leader of MYP…..check your facts

    2. In which party is Kadzamira? Is it not her organization CCAM which forced people to give it money?

      Where is JZU? Has he renounced his membership to MCP?

  45. We are not honest with our selves. Full confession to start with Bakili Muluzi, John Tembo, Nicholas Dausi

    1. You’ve taken a dangerous root my dear………………….. the case under discussion is a straight forward and not connected to any traditional dance? Is MCP for Chewas and Chewas for MCP? Are you trying to segregate the Chewas from participating anything beyond MCP? I thought Dausi a Ngoni, Henry Musa a Lhomwe and Muluzi a Yao were part of the former and dirty MCP? Do they have gule wamkulu in their traditions? Why do you hate the Chewas? Do we have a tribe in Malawi that belongs to one party? Chiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitsiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

  47. And when you say thousands how have you counted them. Foolish reporter. Do you want to divert peoples attention on the issue of Albino? You are a disgrace to our Mother Malawi. Stupid CADET. If you need true confession then go to Dausi since he was the one who was heading MYP Chakwera and Mia was not there just like your mother, stupid! How old are you anyway? useless person.

    1. Hahahaha koma nde mwakwiya kwambiri a “Wamwano” tu I think ndinu amwano kwambiri eti, mpaka ma stupid, stupid kikikiki? But you can’t erase history wamva. Any attempt or act to delete history becomes itself history. Kongolesi imapha, imapha basi. Ine am 15 years koma ndadziwirapo kuti Kongolesi imapha wanthu kale.

    3. Wamwano, please don’t shoot the messenger take the message and act. Tonse timalakwitsa ndipo ngati tavomera ndi kupepetsa nkhani imatha, ukamakana nkhani imakula. Tinalipo ife ndipo timaona zomwe MCP inawachitira anthu osalakwa. Azimayi woyembekdzera amadulitsidwa khadi ya unborn child ndi zina zambiri. Malawi was a hell on earth. So many atrocities happened during Kamuzu Banda’s regime. I was a grown up boy in late 70s, 80s and early 90s. Actually, Kamuzu Banda was a dictator, a bad leader who tortured his own people. This is we always say MCP will never rule Malawi mpaka idzapepetse kwa Amalawi. It is much better to vote for UDF, AFORD, UTM, PP or DPP than to vote for Grand Old Party (GOP) MCP. I rest my case

  48. DPP zawavuta anachoka liti a MCP pachiongolero mukayambe vigil pano ifeyo sitisitha maganizo inu muchoke, ndipo mupange check anthu omwe akhale pamenepo onse its Lomwe Belt, mwachedwa nazo zimenezi, mukanayamba 2014 mutatenga boma, pano mwabayiba mukufuna MCP ikuganizireni chiani? Never Again mwaona kuti sikutesa MCP ndiye mwati mukapele petition plus vigil, tilinanu mpakana muchoka 2019 two months coming. Nkhanga zaona kaleeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    1. We are moving forward with MCP anthuwa amend amazuza anthu Ali muboma LA DPP panopa salimu MCP ayi

  49. Truth & reconciliation commission is a pending solution to this crisis. The vulnerable victims they should not be used by the greedy politicians for campaign ploys against the MCP establishment.

    1. And Truth & Reconciliation will affect all Malawians because every Malaawian was MCP then and any Malawian could be MCP leader.

  50. How much have they paid you to write such a piece of trash. What are you exactly trying to achieve. you are a useless reporter

  52. Why don’t you ask Nicolus Dausi, Bakili Muluzi and Henry Mussa. They are the ones who should answer.

  53. kkkkk idzi dzafika nthawi yachabe kwa MCP. Musathawe kakumane nawo anthuwa. Kani nanunso ndi a coward? Dzimaphweka mukamawatchula anzanu mayina Mr Chakwera, pano zili pansana panu, ayi musathawe. Musaonetse u coward wanu muli kunja kwa boma, choncho anthu adzakuvoterani bwanji?

    1. How is this connected to Chakwera? as rightly put they were committed by MCP government and not MCP party then help us with your vote so that we can get back in Government and then we will do that on behalf of Dausi and others who are cowards

    2. Umbui ndi vuto loopsa kwambiri!! Take this: Any crime that a ruling party makes while it is in government is paid for by government using government resources! This is why all people who were victims of July 20 killings by DPP were paid for by government and not dpp as a party!! After all ngakhale mulongolole chotani, the truth still remains and it is that Ntaba, Dausi, Henry Musa and Bakili Muluzi are right now not MCP members or officials, but still remain former MCP members and officials, AND NONE OF THE CURRENT CROP OF MCP KNOWS NOTHING OF THOSE CRIMES BUT THEM!! Nde musatinyansepo apaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Lelo ndi izi omweo ayambanso kupanga nthawi ino pomwe ali mu dpp! Nanga imeneyo ndi MCP?

    3. So you think this article is true? You can’t separate propaganda from truth? The MCP manifesto launch has been postponed to Saturday from Friday because Goodall Gondwe will present midterm budget statement on the same Friday afternoon. Because BICC will no longer be available on Saturday, the venue has changed to Crossroads Hotel.

      That’s the truth. The atrocities story is just a makeup. After all, it’s a national tribunal issue not a party issue. The writer is clearly sick!

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