HEAL ZIMBABWE - BASELINE STUDY REPORT a le Preferre re on iliation pro ra that ho l o e fir t an la t Reconciliation Interventions What should come first (Percentages) What should come last (Percentages) Truth-telling 36.5 3.5 Justice 17.8 7.0 Compensation/ Restitution 13.5 8.6 Dialogue 10.5 5.1 Forgiveness/Amnesty 6.0 17.9 Apology 5.6 2.3 Healing 5.2 1.2 Forgive and Forget 3.2 27.6 Memorialisation 1.1 8.9 Ritualization 0.6 17.9 Total 100 100 Table 10 shows that truth-telling should come first as 36.5% of the total participants approved it followed by justice which was approved by 17.8%. On the other hand, a total of 27.6% of the total respondents said forgive and forget should come last followed by ritualization and forgiveness/amnesty which both scored 17.9%. These results shows clearly that truth-telling and justice are first priority reconciliation interventions while forgiving and forgetting, amnesty and ritualization should be sequenced later. 5.5. How do Communities Want to Deal with the Past This section explains how communities expect to see peace and reconciliation process happening at both national and community levels. Respondents were asked to explain what communities actually want to be done in order for them to feel satisfied that reconciliation has taken place. They were also asked to explain what they want to see the NPRC do for their wishes to be achieved. 5.5.1. What Communities Want to be Done The study observed specific peace and reconciliation remedies that communities seek to be done in order for the process to be most effective. Among the general demands that communities would want to see are; compensation, truth-telling, prosecution of offenders and assurance of non-recurrence. A member of the clergy from Bulawayo remarked that; 69 Firstly people need to talk about their pain; some people just began to cry, in a visit to Tsholotsho... we meet skeletons of our dead relatives,’ we need time to cry bury and get explanations, zvakaitirwei and who did it? This expression of ‘moment of madness does not help’, we need national ownership of the perpetration, because those who were not involved have been brought into the hogwash; -our silence nurtured this culture…. we need memorialisation…69 Personal interview with a Church Leader in Bulawayo on the 14th of March 2017 39