On 14 March 2011, he was attacked and seriously wounded in the head. At 00:30 local time, he and his spokeswoman Buket ÃakÄ±cÄ± Ã§akÄ±cÄ± were shot at by unknown assailants after leaving the offices of the Private turkish Channel BEYAZ tv following his weekly television. shown the 1980s the Turkish government had banned the use of Kurdish; at a concert in Sweden in December 1986, he had sung two folk songs in Kurdish and was thus prosecuted for separatist propaganda, but found not guilty in 1987.
Chimurenga is a word in the Shona language, roughly meaning revolutionary struggle. The word's modern interpretation broadly denotes a struggle for human rights, political dignity and social justice.
The coming of the Pioneer Column in the early 1890s rang the bell for a military confrontation with the locals and the invaders. The resistance offered in 1896-7 was known as the Second Matabele War by the British, but the First Chimurenga by the Africans. The name Chimurenga comes from that of Sororenzou Murenga, who had led his people during First Matabele War in 1893. Hence Chimurenga is a Shona word that implies revolutionary struggle.