President Peter Mutharika should restore June 14 as Freedom Day as some Malawians have been sanitising killers and brutal dictators who misruled Malawi for 30 years, a group of veteran freedom fighters has demanded.
6th April in 1992, Chakufwa Chihana was arrested at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) in Lilongwe upon arrival to fight for multiparty democracy
The group called Defenders of Malawi Freedom and Democracy has issued a statement and over 12 posters celebrating what it terms as June 14 Heroes who sacrificed their lives for Malawi's democracy today.
"Look at Mangochi, MCP today pretends it will build Masauko Chipembere airport, they mention Orton Ching'oli Chirwa and others yet Dr Chakwera fails to apologies to the hundreds of thousands that died, were arrested or their property destroyed," he said.
Among the posters that have been distributed in mainly north Malawi are Orton Chirwa founder of MCP killed in October 1992, his wife and Malawi's first female lawyer Vera who wa jailed for 12 years, Masauko Chipembere poisoned in the USA in 1975, Dr Attati Mpakati petrol bombed in Harare, Mkwapatira Mhango whose whole family was petrol bombed in Lusaka Zambia, Machipisa Munthali jailed for 27 years, Aaron Gadama, Dick Matenje, Twaibu Sangala and Augustine Chiwanga who were brutally murdered in Mwanza in 1983, Dunduzu Chisiza killed in 1962 and his brother hanged in 1967.
Bakili Muluzi, Malawi's first democratically elected president and a list of Jehovah Witnesses persecuted by the MCP regime for their faith, lecturers from Chancellor college such as Dr Bernard Harawa, Jack Mapanje, Peter Mwanza, Peter Chiwona and others mainly from the North that were constantly jailed.
