Posted on 06/11/2008 7:20:28 PM PDT by george76
The men who pulled up in three white pickup trucks were looking for Patson Chipiro, head of the Zimbabwean opposition party in Mhondoro district. His wife, Dadirai, told them he was in Harare but would be back later in the day, and the men departed.
An hour later they were back. They grabbed Mrs Chipiro and chopped off one of her hands and both her feet. Then they threw her into her hut, locked the door and threw a petrol bomb through the window.
The killing last Friday – one of the most grotesque atrocities committed by Robert Mugabe’s regime since independence in 1980 – was carried out on a wave of worsening brutality before the run-off presidential elections in just over two weeks. It echoed the activities of Foday Sankoh, the rebel leader in the Sierra Leone civil war that ended in 2002, whose trade-mark was to chop off hands and feet.
Mrs Chipiro, 45, a former pre-school teacher, was the second wife of a junior official of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) burnt alive last Friday by Zanu (PF) militiamen. Pamela Pasvani, the 21-year-old pregnant wife of a local councillor in Harare, did not suffer mutilation but died later of her burns; his six-year-old son perished in the flames.
Yesterday about 70 local MDC supporters gathered in Mr Chipiro’s small yard in Mhondoro, 90 miles south of Harare, to protect him. Inside the hut where his wife of 29 years died, women sang softly to a subdued drum beat next to the cheap wooden coffin. The thatched roof had been destroyed in the fire so they sat under the open sky. The lid could not be closed because ...
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Obama’s buddy
Probably 5th brigade types.
Mugabe is a disease.
Too bad we are so fractured that we cannot mount a response. Oh well...
It is a good thing that we have the UN so that things like this will never happen in the world.
darn server storage and free speak
Nelson Mandela , Jimmy Carter...are silent ?
Scumbags.
As soon as The UN gets done monitoring the elections her in the U S of KKK A, they should probably consider looking into things going on in Zimbabwe.
UN ?
What the democRATS would like to do to conservatives...if they thought they could get away with it. And they may very well be able to in the near future.
It's all over, folks. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Not to mention American blacks?
Just another hero of the left, doing what they do best.
Oh, they furrowed their brows with concern when they heard the news. But hey-- where is "Bishop" Desmond F*ing Tutu? .
Now THERE’S something to be bitter about.
Yeah, you’re right. None of this would have happened if Al Gore and Obama had given Mugabe a hug ten years ago.
Amazing that worldwide media paints GWB and Israel as evil, and constantly tells us we are hated.
Could a Nobel “Peace” Prize be in Mugabe’s future? IMHO, it’s starting to look that way.
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