Another respondent echoed that “Matabeleland women want an apology accompanied with truth and acknowledgement. I can’t see my perpetrator walking free out there. I know my perpetrators. ‘Ndakakuwadzwa but handinamariyekuzvirapisa’70 -we need 71 compensation.” The above demands illustrate that communities are still suffering from the wounds of the past violations.They want truth-telling and compensation as well as to know the motivation behind the violations. Communities want to rebury their beloved ones who were buried in the shallow graves, as in case of the victims of Gukurahundi and the 2008 killings. They also want to conduct memorialisation programmes to allow them to remember the past. It is also notable that the NPRC should not be blind to regional transitional justice grievances. This means that reconciliation program activities may also be customised to specific regional needs and interests. Former President of Zimbabwe R.G Mugabe, (2008) Source: Reuters/Antony Njuguna Ndakakuwadzwa but handina mari yekuzvirapisa’ means I was injured but I do not have money to pay my medical bills. 71 Personal interview with a female Gukurahundi Victim in Bulawayo on the 14th of March 2017. 72 Guthrey, H. L. (2015). Victim healing and truth commissions: Transforming pain through voice in Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste (Vol. 11). Springer. 73 Personal interview with a female, Civic Society Leader Harare on the 12th of April 2017. 70 A gendered approach is also necessary to ensure that victims, particularly women, are afforded healing opportunity without exposing them to re-victimisation.72 One respondent said, “those raped require medication and therapy since some rapists have died …. Some women got divorce after being raped and infected by HIV/AIDS. Some were labelled ‘Mahure a Tsvangirayi (meaning prostitutes of the opposition MDC-T leader)”.73 These remarks above, calls for the peace and reconciliation facilitators to be sensitive to genderspecific needs. The study also observed that the respondents were concerned about institutional reform as part of the reconciliation process. Firstly, they want the government to acknowledge and take responsibilities of the past violations.