Posted on December 9, 2008
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In Zimbabwe, these days, if you do not die from the cholera you may just find a swifter death: (H/T: The First Post)
How the elderly wife of one of Zimbabwe’s last White farmers met her death
Mary Austen, a 74-year-old British-born woman, has been found dead on the farm which she and her husband ran near the Midlands town of Kwekwe. Her body was discovered in the couple’s garden, and a doctor who performed a post mortem reported that she died from multiple head injuries.
Her husband was found in the couple’s house. He too had been attacked with ferocity, but he was still alive, and is now under medical care at a private facility in Harare.
He has told his doctors that their home was attacked by ten men last week. He knew none of them by sight, but assumed that they were so-called Freedom Fighters. He said they came at night and ordered both husband and wife into the garden.
My source within the government spy agency, the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), told me that the couple tried to reason with the men but were ignored. “They began attacking them with pick handles and sticks, and both collapsed to the ground. Mrs. Austen died on the spot, and Mr. Austen was left for dead,” the source said.
One of those who found the couple told me: “It was a gruesome sight. Mrs. Austen was lying face down, her clothes were torn, and she was covered in clotted blood.”
There seems to be no clear motive for the attack. Local villagers described the Austens as “a very understanding and kind hearted couple”, who apparently grew large amounts of vegetables which they gave, along with other help, to those in need.
Mrs. Austen’s death was not the only tbrutal murder in the country this week. In the rural Mashonaland district of Murehwa, villagers have discovered the mutilated and decomposing body of an opposition MDC councillor, Alloys Chandisarewa Sanyangore.
Mr. Sanyangore was abdudcted from his home at midnight early in November. It is understood that he had been strangled. He leaves a wife and six children.
Fears also continue to grow for the abducted human rights activist Jestina Mukoko, who, as I previously reported, was taken from her home barefoot and wearing only pyjamas.
This is life, and death, in Zimbabwe today.
But in spite of the former “breadbasket of Africa” having become the poorest nation in the world with a four digit inflation index, in spite of brutal repression, blatant human rights violations, murder, and rape the United Nation’s infamous Human Rights Council is obsessed with Israel and its right to defend itself against terror…
With thousands of people dying of cholera (because hospitals are bankrupt and have no supplies) with no relief in sight, with no sign from Mugabe that he has any intention of giving up the power handed to him by Jimmy Carter in 1980, Zimbabwe’s neighbors are getting ready to take justice in their own hands:
Armed intervention is now on the cards – here’s why
Zambia, one of Zimbabwe’s neighbouring countries, stations its crack 2nd battalion troops at the Tug Argan barracks in the Copperbelt city of Ndola. Zambia’s Commandos are at the nearby Mushili depot. Recently both units have been training, in joint operations with the army of Botswana, another of our neighbouring states. The prospect – nothing less than the armed invasion of Zimbabwe.
This scenario has grown more and and more likely over the past few days, as the tone of international condemnation of Robert Mugabe becomes strident, and the possibility of armed intervention in Zimbabwe is at last given serious consideration.
Those famous voices who previously called for negotiations are now calling for action. Former Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, even ponderous British Prime Minister Gordon Brown – all have declared that enough is enough.
These tough-talking leaders have clearly and jointly reached the conclusion that Zimbabwe is collapsing and its people suffering unforgivably – something that commentators such as your own Moses Moyo have been telling them for months, even years.
It’s the appalling cholera epidemic, first highlighted on this site, that has brought them to this conclusion. It has taken the pitiful and highly preventable deaths of thousands of innocent Zimbabweans to remove the scales from their eyes.
Underlying the many tough statements this last weekend was the unmistakable implication that if Mugabe can’t be persuaded to step down – and he can’t – then the next step is armed intervention. But not by troops from America, or Britain, or anywhere in Europe.
The unspoken rule is that such military action cannot, for all the usual historical and political reasons, be taken by White troops, from White countries. The soldiers who cross the border into Zimbabwe must be African. And as South Africa, under its wishy-washy leadership, cannot be relied upon, we expect it will be our brothers from Botswana and Zambia who will be asked to lead the way.
My source in Zambia told me: “Our forces are fully equipped, especially with Ak47’s and Katyusha rocket launchers and tanks. The plan is for Botswana troops and Zambian units to invade simultaneously from their own borders, catching Mugabe’s men in a pincer movement.”
He told me that there would certainly be public enthusiasm in both Zambia and Botswana for an enforced end to the Zimbabwean dictatorship. For months economic and political refugees have crowded across the borders of both countries. Now they still come – and they bring cholera with them.
Zambia observers also believe that the fight, if it came to one, would not be a long one. Zimbabwe’s troops, as also revealed exclusively on these pages, are already rioting, and staging pitched battles with police in the Harare streets. They are thought to have no stomach for a battle to save Mugabe.
Meanwhile the international calls for action have also included a suggestion that Mugabe be brought to trial at the international court at the Hague. But, I must point out, that won’t happen if we get our hands on him first. We have a swifter justice to exact.
It is sad that the situation in Zimbabwe festered this long, it is sad an invasion by its neighbors has become a necessity, will the UN human Rights Council even bother to put on its agenda a full discussion of the myriad violations by the Mugabe regime? Will they also include a full, honest, open appraisal of the fate of Darfurians at the hand of Sudan’s government and the janjaweed? Will they discuss the plight of women in Congo where rape is a powerful political weapon? You can be sure they won’t, unless… Israel (that Zionist Entity!) can somehow be implicated. Pity!
Mugabe and his dear friend, the putrid little maggot, Ahmedinajad
Chaim
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Chaim, this is horrible beyond belief that these poor people have to live in such terror of Mugabe’s anarchic mobs. It’s fitting that one evil tyrant (Mugabe) should be photographed shaking hands with another. No other self-respecting political leader would be caught dead photographed amicably with this monster. He should have been dragged out, tried by a company of his own people, and executed in full view of his many, many victims.
I have been following this situation since Ian Smith was kidked out. I used to follow a blogger named Cathy Buckle. Does anyone know if she survived the violence. She provided a detailed chronicle of the decline of this society after the fall of Smith..