Related: Running With Mother – a child's tale of Gukurahundi killings Zimbabwe's second vice-president Phelekezela Mphoko recently claimed that the Matabeleland massacres were a "conspiracy of the west", with nothing to do with Mugabe.
The documents also show that Msipa talked to other members of Zanu-PF, who claimed the killings were the result of a formal, broad-based decision by the leadership.
The Ugandan government claims that military operations against the rebel group had succeeded in significantly reducing its numbers and claims that such a small force would not have the capacity to make so many killings.
Mass killings of Tutsis, expressly ordered by the Congolese president, Laurent Kabila, have occurred in western and eastern Congo.
The president was also criticised for celebrating his niece Ine's wedding over weekend, in the aftermath of the killings.
For a start, murder rates are at their lowest for 25 years, and the proportion of murders that are family related (this includes killings by any family member, not just an intimate partner) are also down.
The brother of a British man murdered in the French Alps with his family has revealed the pair fought over a £1m inheritance before his death, but insisted he played no part in the killings.
While denying any suggestions he was involved in the killings, Zaid al-Hilli, from Chessington, Surrey, admitted he fought with his brother in October 2011 after months of arguments over a £1 million property, which the family owned in Claygate.
"We've seen in the past, over and over again, how there's been a lot of retaliation by the LRA, the burning of villages, maiming people, a lot of killings, with little military success".
The final pilot on Thursday – including an update on the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election result and Brooker's take on the Arizona killings ("they held a minute's silence … while they reloaded") – was attended by David Abraham, Channel 4's chief executive, and Jay Hunt, its new creative head.
The report warned of an "alarming deterioration" of human rights in eastern Ukraine, where it said insurgent groups had carried out "targeted killings, torture and beatings, abductions, intimidation and some cases of sexual harassment".
