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Robert Mugabe Militia Hacks, Burns Alive Opposition Leader's Wife
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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 Dadirai 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.
About 70 local sup****ters of the Movement for Democratic Change
sup****ters gathered Wednesday in Patson Chipiro’s small yard in
Mhondoro 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 Dadirai Chipiro’s outstretched arm had
burnt rigid. Her charred hand was found as women swept the hut.
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