Posted on 06/03/2008 6:14:59 PM PDT by blam
Zimbabwe crisis: White farming couple beaten and kicked off land
By David Blair
Last Updated: 2:06AM BST 04/06/2008
A white farming couple was assaulted, whipped and shot at after they were given two minutes to leave their property in Zimbabwe.
William Rogers and his wife, Annette, were threatened by three Robert Mugabe supporters, who told them: "We are like hungry lions."
Dozens of Zimbabwe's last white farmers have suffered similar ordeals since Mr Mugabe lost the presidential election's first round in March. Scores of black opposition supporters have been murdered and thousands beaten, abducted or tortured.
After defying the two-minute warning to leave, Mr and Mrs Rogers took refuge in their home on Chigwell farm. A gang of a dozen men soon gathered outside.
"They started smashing windows and the front door was smashed open," said Mr Rogers. One of the men produced a gun and opened fire. "He fired a shot directly at us which went just over my head and close to my wife's head," said Mr Rogers. "He obviously intended to kill us."
The couple retreated upstairs and listened, terrified, as the gang began heaping together a fire in their living room, using the wreckage of their back door.
"We thought we would be burnt alive, which is when I said that we would come out," said Mr Rogers. He grabbed a shotgun and led his wife downstairs. The ringleader ordered him to hand over his weapon. Men seized Mrs Rogers and grabbed her by the throat.
Then the mob set upon both the farmer and his wife with sticks and pipes. "They dragged my wife outside and they were trying to strangle her," said Mr Rogers. "She managed to bite the hand of the man who was grabbing her round the throat.
"He started to beat her. At one time, there were at least four men beating and kicking her."
Bruised and bleeding, the couple were tied up and hurled into the back of a pickup. Finally, at least five hours after the first calls for help, the local police responded. Four armed officers freed Mr and Mrs Rogers, who were taken to Harare, the capital, for emergency treatment. They are now recovering.
these people should be taken into our country. they are refugees. oh, wait they are white and whites are racist, nevermind they were beaten up by black zimbabweians.
And Mugabe wonders why Zimbabweans are starving...
did she lose an eye?
they are lucky to be alive - there is a real genocide of whites in Africa - where is the NY Times?
Read any “college” book. White people shouldn’t be allowed on the planet. The majority of white college kids all agree.
I know it’s their land, but I’m surprised they were still there. I guess the Zimbabweans aren’t too efficient in their ethnic cleansing.
They can come to our country. Think of all the preferential treatment they will be entitled to as “African-Americans!”
I await the mass demonstrations by the left on this, I await the UN on this, I await them likes of sharpton and jackson on this.
I await our Govt to say that those who are in fear of their life can come here especially as we need those who can work and will work
O silly me they are white, nothing will be done and the racist regime goes on , while the libs and the likes of jackson go on supporting the racist Obama and his wife.
I know there were demonstrations even ugly ones by some when south africa was racist yet we have another country not that far away from there who is racist and those who had demonstrated will not about this
se;ective outrage once again by those hypocrites
yeah, let us incompetent, stupid assho*es have this beautiful farm. It’ll be worthless in two months.
exactly.
There is a reason Africa is called the "dark continent"..
..ignorant Zim savages....
This is npt a crisis. That implies that there is a tippong point and the situation is at or near it. These invasions started in 2000. The current crop of invasiona are just some loose ends being tidied up
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Mugabe is the left's man, they helped put him in power.
Why does any white person remain in Zimbabwe? Robert Mugabe has been attacking whites for years now. Any white in Zimbabwe has to have see the writing on the wall by now!
Maybe Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen & Little Steven will hold a benefit concert for them.
“yeah, let us incompetent, stupid assho*es have this beautiful farm. It’ll be worthless in two months.”
I would burn everything of value to the ground first.
Agreed, let them rot in hell, but theses sons of Africa are no different than any inner hoop dreams and rap mogul dreamers.Grimacing and crotch grabbing ,gang sign flashing,and pants pulling on the street corners.Attacking in gangs and robbing others because they have more than them.
China will soon be their new masters and the horror that was Rwanda will look like minor blip compared to the ecological, agricultural, and genocidal apocalypse that the Manchu will release.
They probably feel they have the right to ‘take back their land’ as this was pretty much how their ancestors lost their native lands to the Dutch and English settlers. (and no, I’m not saying it’s right).
I feel sorry for these folks, but the writing was on the wall years ago. They should have packed up and left a long time ago. I know it’s hard to abandon a home you love, but an erupting volcano doesn’t care — neither does a mob.
There is no hope for Zimbabwe. Outside massive foreign intervention (yes, I mean colonialism) its slide back into the stone age is inevitable.
South Africa won’t be far behind.
There's also the fact that they are idiots.
Yeah--and soon they'll be a lot hungrier, as internal production of food continues to plummet.
If you think this through, that might actually be a good idea. May Bert Rutan perfect the technology that will allow our children to escape.
are we seeing America in the second Obama term?
Just like the Jews should have left Germany?
Where would they go?
What would they live on?
Would the U.S.A. have let them in?
so are most of the other refugees we take into the country from like lets say Islamic Somalia?
The way America is heading, someday people may be saying that about you and me.
Why are they not taking the credit they deserve for their hand in what has happened in these countries?
One day they'll be saying the same thing about me here in California.
But hell, I was born here.
“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; Africa was better off under colonization then it has ever been since.”
Very true. Some other parts of the world as well.
They didn’t.
For the most part, Europeans in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) took untilled virgin lands, setting aside native tribal lands as traditional communal property not subject to sale and transfer.
The problem was that -
1. The native population outgrew the carrying capacity of their communal lands, and they desired expansion into what were now white-owned rich agricultural properties.
2. The white settlers brought in farm workers from outside the local tribal society, many even from South Africa and Mozambique. A lot of these people are now a big part of the black Zimbabwean refugees in SA, Botswana, etc.
You're right. I don't know how liberals have programmed in self-loathing to such a degree but they have managed not only erase any bit of racial pride in white kids but also erased any feeling of human pride.
Does Mugabe have a policy of genocide towards white Zimbabweans?
During the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, many of the white citizens fled the country, but the farmers stayed and tried to “make a go of it”. It worked for about 20 years until Mugabe needed a scapegoat for political purposes, then he started his “land reform” (forced sales and/or confiscations of white-owned farms) back about 2001.
It has been downhill, of course, since then. Before Mugabe’s communistic rampage, Zimbabwe was able to feed itself and sell food to surrounding nations.
One could perhaps make an argument that the land was “taken” from natives by an earlier generation of white settlers, but as we know, two wrongs do not make a right.
Besides, when a nation has a successful farming system, it is national suicide to destroy it. But then Marxists, such as Mugabe, were never long on common sense.
Exactly! I spent a month there during 1981 in Bulawayo about 6 months after Mugabe took over. Nice infrastructure thanks to the former Rhodesia. But we were not accustomed to this on February 11: two tribal factions within the Zimbabwe army got into a dispute. Net result: 300 dead citizens caught in the crossfire over the next week. Hours after we turned off an intersection, one army faction ambushed a armored convoy killing 60.
Returned to Bulawayo in 2000. What a change! On flying in, I was pulled out of the customs line. As a U.S. citizen, they required a special entry fee - $10 (US) as I recall.
Infrastructure had gone down the tube. Gas lines ala our 70's. Yet later while traveling in neighboring Botswana, there was gas aplenty -- modern well stocked supermarkets.
Economically, Zimbabwe has shot themselves in the foot. Yet, Jacques Diouf, Director General of the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, denounces the West about Africa's problems:
"No one understands… how over-consumption by obese people in the [Western] world costs $20 billion each year."
And it isn't because the farmers were white and the attackers were black. This has happened before, in places where both sides were the same ethnic group.
What you have is the results of liberalism allowed to run free. This is our future, sadly, and there is no where else to go.
So what would you do in their situation? What will you do when you see cries of property/wealth redistribution at the point of the sword? And I don't mean the taxes we have now, but in situations like this.
I may have used the shotgun and taken some of them with me before they killed me.
Ina material sense,perhaps.Though colonial rule was not implememted to benefit the Africans,but the European colonizers.
The illogic of your thinking to me-and with all respect-is that colonial society was based on what I think is a liberal rationale-”Oh,those poor colored people.They are so helpless and incapable.The need the white man to provide for them”
To me that attitude is similiar to white libs in THIS country.Stay on the Dem plantation and we will take care of you.
Doesn’t work here and it really didn’t work too well for Africans.
If the USA gets to this stage, there will be no place else on earth to go for refuge. We will have to fight here, or face extinction.
Winston Churchill commented on that concept.
Reagan did... “A Time for Choosing”.
You'd be hard-pressed to say the residents of "Zimbabwe" are better off than were the residents of "Rhodesia".
I'll concede colonies of other-then-England (Germany and Belgium, for example) did not fare so well.
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