Anthony Reeler war for the hearts and minds of the people, but a massive terror campaign aimed at destroying the will of a whole community. As an ordinary person, you might have suffered torture, frequently in public, in front of your relatives and friends. You might have been forced to attend a pungwe, where you would have been forced to sing ZANU(PF) songs and listen to speeches denigrating your tribe and its leaders. You might have witnessed the cruel torture of your friends and relatives, and quite possibly the execution of some of them. Some of these horrible occurrences are clearly detailed in the CCJP/LRF report, Breaking the Silence. You would have been subjected to a curfew and have faced near starvation as food supplies were interfered with – and this during some of the most devastating droughts that the country had ever seen. You might even have been told that you would be starved deliberately. You would have been forced to live with the immediate memory of the cruel deaths faced by your friends and relatives, after which they were thrown into shallow graves, and be denied the opportunity of giving them a decent burial or being allowed decent grieving. You were told not to touch the dead on pain of further torture and similar treatment. Indeed, your loved ones might still reside within those graves today – if you knew where they had been buried. Your loved ones might, in fact, have disappeared altogether, taken away and undoubtedly killed. This has been a particularly bitter legacy of the Gukurahundi, as has been attested by recent research.12 The process of exhumation and reburial will take some years, and this alone is proof of the violence of the 1980 period in Matabeleland. If you had been either a former soldier or were a member of PF-ZAPU, your fate could have been equally severe. Imprisonment and torture were a very likely fate. In one of the notorious detention centres, such as Bhalagwe or Stops Camp, the Central Intelligence Organization (CIO) might have viciously tortured you. You would have known others receiving similar treatment, many of whom would not survive and would never be seen again, their bodies disposed of in nearby mine shafts. The scale and intensity were truly enormous. Few people in Matabeleland North and South escaped without some exposure, and the effects can be still seen quite clearly today. Epidemiological studies show us the scale: nearly five adults in ten attending rural clinics or hospital outpatients were victims of the 12  A Report on the Exhumation and Reburial Exercise Overseen by the Amani Trust in Gwanda District, 25 July to 3 September 1999 (Bulawayo: Amani Trust, 1999). 36 International Conference on Transitional Justice, Zimbabwe