Robert Mugabe's militia burn opponent’s wife alive

The Times ^ | June 12, 2008 | Jan Raath

[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 ...

[george76]

Nelson Mandela , Jimmy Carter...are silent ?

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[pissant]

Obama’s buddy

[Perdogg]

Probably 5th brigade types.

[Army Air Corps]

Mugabe is a disease.

[benjamin032]

Too bad we are so fractured that we cannot mount a response. Oh well...

[NonValueAdded]

It is a good thing that we have the UN so that things like this will never happen in the world.

[Flavius]

darn server storage and free speak

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

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.

Nelson Mandela , Jimmy Carter...are silent ?

Scumbags.

[Texas Eagle]

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.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

UN ?

[Ouderkirk]

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.

[Texas Eagle]

Official UN response:

It's all over, folks. Nothing to see here. Move along.

[the invisib1e hand]

Nelson Mandela , Jimmy Carter...are silent ?

Not to mention American blacks?

[SledgeCS]

Is there one example of an African colony that gained independence from a white European country that has NOT degraded back to being pure animals. Zimbabwe used to be a gem in Africa, as Rhodesia, and now it is a S**tHole.

[Ron in Acreage]

Just another hero of the left, doing what they do best.

[hinckley buzzard]

Nelson Mandela , Jimmy Carter...are silent ?

Oh, they furrowed their brows with concern when they heard the news. But hey-- where is "Bishop" Desmond F*ing Tutu? .

[Texas Eagle]

Now THERE’S something to be bitter about.

[donaldo]

Yeah, you’re right. None of this would have happened if Al Gore and Obama had given Mugabe a hug ten years ago.

[roses of sharon]

Amazing that worldwide media paints GWB and Israel as evil, and constantly tells us we are hated.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Could a Nobel “Peace” Prize be in Mugabe’s future? IMHO, it’s starting to look that way.

[Chode]

africawinsagain...

[george76]

Robert Mugabe is Obama’s friend ?

[hinckley buzzard]

Too bad we are so fractured that we cannot mount a response. Oh well...

If by "we" you mean the US government, or even the Western world: I regret to inform you that among those with any power, no one really cares.

[doc1019]

And US voters might put someone of like mind in charge or our country. Heaven forbid. ;-(

[bill1952]

>Is there one example of an African colony that gained independence from a white European country that has NOT degraded back to being pure animals.?

No.

[Quix]

and thereby

Mandella and Peanut head are complicit.

[Bender2]

If nObama is elected and I was Hillary, I'd be afraid. Very afraid!!!

[alecqss]

“did not suffer mutilation but died later of her burns; “

It is so nice that she did not suffer.

[wastedyears]

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[headstamp 2]

“Oh, they furrowed their brows with concern when they heard the news. But hey— where is “Bishop” Desmond F*ing Tutu?”

He's off counting his money and living the high life like the corrupt bastard he is.

[big'ol_freeper]

Did you see where McCain stated NY City mayor Bloomberg is on his short list for VP? When I read that it just ruined my day.

[chaos_5]

Yep, they are running the country so much better than the Rhodesians did.

[alecqss]

“Amazing that worldwide media paints GWB and Israel as evil, and constantly tells us we are hated.”

You are in denial. Nothing amazing about it. Read again - woman did not suffer and, though she later died of burns, we all know that burns are due to global warming. Bush’s fault all around.

[pallis]

We are about to have our very own Mugabe type president. It’ll start with reparations, but our liberation clown won’t stop there.

[Fox_Mulder77]

Not to mention American blacks?

You mean marxist American blacks. They're the ones that claim everything wrong in Africa is due to the white man. So it's not surprising they're silent over this. It doesn't fit their lies.

Same goes for marxist whites that are silent over this. It's the marxism that matters not skin color.

[ought-six]

“Nelson Mandela , Jimmy Carter...are silent ?”

Are you kidding? I’m sure they whole-heartedly approve of their good friend Bobby Mugabe and his minions.

[pillut48]

Oh, so that means there’ll be countless resolutions and finger wagging in Mugabe’s direction. I’m so sure he’ll be terrified of the UN and immediately change his ways.

/sarc

[EEDUDE]

“Is there one example of an African colony that gained independence from a white European country that has NOT degraded back to being pure animals.”

I can’t think of one.

It should be painfully obvious to all that some cultures are simply savage, uncivilized, and in the absence of outside influences, will remain so.

Sometimes you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.

Pity the innocents in Zimbabwe.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Right. Nelson could ask Winnie to go over there and show them how they necklace in South Africa.

[television is just wrong]

we’ll see this in our own country if this guy gets in.

[Banjoguy]

What a bloody awful thing to do to an innocent. Where in the hell is the outrage from the left?

[Don Carlos]

Ghana? Third world for sure, but civilized from what I understand.

[Postman]

that needs to be cut out!

[Banjoguy]

back to being pure animals.?

Animals do not do this. The evil of these men is beyond description.

[Texas Eagle]

Oh, so that means there’ll be countless resolutions and finger wagging in Mugabe’s direction.

That'll learn 'im.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Mugabe is a disease.***

Careful now. He has been the darling of the media left for the last 25 years.

[Texas Eagle]

Official UN response:

"I phart in your general direction!"

[Poison Pill]

Is there one example of an African colony that gained independence from a white European country that has NOT degraded back to being pure animals.

Botswana. Stable, peaceful, 70+% Christian.

[monkeybrau]

Surely this will at least get a committee in the U.N. started on drafting the dreaded “Strongly Worded Letter (tm)”

[maine-iac7]

Is there one example of an African colony that gained independence from a white European country that has NOT degraded back to being pure animals. Zimbabwe used to be a gem in Africa, as Rhodesia, and now it is a S**tHole.

The truth everyone knows and none dare speak.

The same as the statistics of blacks murdered in the US - 95% of blacks are murdered by blacks...but it's still Whitey's fault.